Thy temples are within thy locks as a piece of a pomegranate.

There are [a]threescore Queens, and fourscore concubines, and of the damsels without number.

But my dove is alone, and my undefiled, she is the only daughter of her mother, and she is dear to her that bare her: the daughters have seen her, and counted her blessed: even the Queens and the concubines, and they have praised her.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 6:7 Meaning, that the gifts are infinite which Christ giveth to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin,
    not one of them is missing.(A)
Your temples behind your veil(B)
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Sixty queens(D) there may be,
    and eighty concubines,(E)
    and virgins beyond number;

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