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A king may have 60 queens.
    He may have 80 slave wives.
He may have many other young women too.
    There may be too many for him to count![a]
But there is only one woman that I want.
    Nobody is like her in any way.
    She is my perfect one, as lovely as a dove.
She is the special daughter of her mother.
    Her mother loves her best among all her children.
The young women saw her and they praised her.
    The queens and the slave wives also praised her.
10 They said, ‘She is like the light that appears at dawn.
    She is as beautiful as the moon.
    She is as bright as the sun.
She is as wonderful as the stars that shine brightly in their places.’

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Footnotes

  1. 6:8 The numbers in verse 8 are big numbers. That is all. The writer does not mean more than that. The man is saying that there are many women. He may know many women. But the woman that he loves is very different from any of them. There is nobody as lovely as she is!