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Many waters cannot quench the flame of love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man tried to buy it with everything he owned, he couldn’t do it.”

The Girl’s Brothers: “We have a little sister too young for breasts. What shall we do if someone asks to marry her?”

King Solomon: “If she has no breasts,[a] we will build upon her a battlement of silver, and if she is a door, we will enclose her with cedar boards.”

The Girl:

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:9 If she has no breasts, literally, “If she be a wall.” build upon her a battlement of silver . . . enclose her with cedar boards, the meaning is obscure.

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