OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 1:16

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Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

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Verse 16. Beams. Prelates.—Rafters. Virtuous subjects. Menochius.—Cypress. The are both odoriferous and incorruptible. The cypress has leaves from top to bottom, and grows not so large as the cedar. Pliny, xii. 17.

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