◄ Proverbs 7:17 {18} ►
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Good News Translation
I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New Revised Standard Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Contemporary English Version
And I have covered it with perfume made of myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New American Bible
I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

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Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

perfumed

Songs 3:6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

Isaiah 57:7-9 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims. . . .

with

Psalm 45:8 Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

Songs 4:13,14 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard. . . .

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
…16I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 17Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.18For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.…
Cross References
John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Exodus 30:23
Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,

Psalm 45:8
Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

Proverbs 7:18
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.

Proverbs 7:16
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