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Warnings about the Adulteress

Proverbs 7:17

In 11 translations

BSB
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
KJV
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
WEB
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
ASV
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
LSV
I sprinkled my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
YLT
I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
DBY
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
DRC
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
GNV
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
JPS
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
LXXE
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

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Original-language editions

WLC
נַ֥פְתִּי מִשְׁכָּבִ֑י מֹ֥ר אֲ֝הָלִ֗ים וְקִנָּמֽוֹן׃
LXX-Br
Διέῤῥαγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κροκίνῳ, τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 45:8All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
  • Isaiah 57:7–9On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it…
  • Song of Songs 4:13–14Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the…
  • Song of Songs 3:6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
  • Exodus 30:23“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

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