OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 1:13

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My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

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Verse 13. Cyprus. A shrub with leaves like the olive-tree, and fruit growing in clusters, of a very agreeable smell. See Pliny, xii. 24. Christ has given us his sacred blood on the cross, and in the blessed Eucharist. Menochius.

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