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A flood cannot put out love.
    Rivers cannot drown love.
Would people despise a man for giving
    everything he owns for love?

Her Brothers Speak

We have a little sister,
    and her breasts are not yet grown.
What should we do for our sister
    when a man comes asking to marry her?

If she were a wall,
    we would put silver trim[a] around her.
If she were a door,
    we would put a cedar board around her.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:9 trim Or “supports.” Often horizontal beams and towers were built into walls to strengthen and support them. But here, this seems to be a decoration.

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