12 His eyes are like doves(A)
beside flowing streams,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.[a]
13 His cheeks(B) are like beds of spice,
mounds of[b] perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.(C)
14 His arms[c] are rods of gold
set[d] with beryl.(D)
His body[e] is an ivory panel
covered with lapis lazuli.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:12 Lit milk sitting in fullness
  2. 5:13 LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
  3. 5:14 Lit hands
  4. 5:14 Lit filled; Sg 5:2,12
  5. 5:14 Lit abdomen

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