Songs 1:13
Good News Translation
My lover has the scent of myrrh as he lies upon my breasts.

New Revised Standard Version
My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh that lies between my breasts.

Contemporary English Version
My darling, you are perfume between my breasts;

New American Bible
My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh; between my breasts he lies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

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A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

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Songs 4:6,14 Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. . . .

Songs 5:1,5,13 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved. . . .

Genesis 43:11 Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

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

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.

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Songs 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 3:5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Songs 8:3,4 His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. . . .

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
12A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts. 13A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.14Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.…
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.

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

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?

Songs 4:16
Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

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