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Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
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Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.
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Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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