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6 ΑΣΜΑSONG OF SOLOMON - Brenton|RSVReference
1Ἀδελφιδός μου κατέβη εἰς κῆπον αὐτοῦ
εἰς φιάλας τοῦ ἀρώματος
ποιμαίνειν ἐν κήποις καὶ συλλέγειν κρίνα·
 My kinsman is gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spice,
to feed [his flock] in the gardens, and to gather lilies.		The women. Sg.6.1
2ἐγὼ τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου, καὶ ἀδελφιδός μου ἐμοὶ,
ὁ ποιμαίνων ἐν τοῖς κρίνοις.
 I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine,
who feeds among the lilies.		She. Sg.6.2-3
3Καλὴ εἶ, ἡ πλησίον μου, ὡς εὐδοκία,
ὡραία ὡς Ιερουσαλημ,
θάμβος ὡς τεταγμέναι.
 Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure,
beautiful as Jerusalem,
terrible as [armies] set in array.		 
4ἀπόστρεψον ὀφθαλμούς σου ἀπεναντίον μου,
ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἀνεπτέρωσάν με.
τρίχωμά σου ὡς ἀγέλαι τῶν αἰγῶν,
αἳ ἀνεφάνησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Γαλααδ.
 Turn away thine eyes from before me,
for they have ravished me:
thy hair is as flocks of goats
which have appeared from Galaad.		The fifth song. He. Sg.6.4-12
5ὀδόντες σου ὡς ἀγέλαι τῶν κεκαρμένων,
αἳ ἀνέβησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λουτροῦ,
αἱ πᾶσαι διδυμεύουσαι,
καὶ ἀτεκνοῦσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖς.
 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn [sheep],
that have gone up from the washing,
all of them bearing twins,
and there is none barren among them:
thy lips are as a thread of scarlet,
and thy speech is comely.		 
6ὡς σπαρτίον τὸ κόκκινον χείλη σου,
καὶ ἡ λαλιά σου ὡραία.
ὡς λέπυρον τῆς ῥόας μῆλόν σου
ἐκτὸς τῆς σιωπήσεώς σου.
 Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate,
[being seen] without thy veil.		 
7Ἑξήκοντά εἰσιν βασίλισσαι, καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα παλλακαί,
καὶ νεάνιδες ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός.
 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines,
and maidens without number.		 
8μία ἐστὶν περιστερά μου, τελεία μου,
μία ἐστὶν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς,
ἐκλεκτή ἐστιν τῇ τεκούσῃ αὐτῆς.
εἴδοσαν αὐτὴν θυγατέρες καὶ μακαριοῦσιν αὐτήν,
βασίλισσαι καὶ παλλακαὶ καὶ αἰνέσουσιν αὐτήν.
 My dove, my perfect one is one;
she is the [only] one of her mother;
she is the choice of her that bore her.
The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed,
yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her.		 
9Τίς αὕτη ἡ ἐκκύπτουσα ὡσεὶ ὄρθρος,
καλὴ ὡς σελήνη, ἐκλεκτὴ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος,
θάμβος ὡς τεταγμέναι;
 Who is this that looks forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, choice as the sun,
terrible as [armies] set in array?		 
10Εἰς κῆπον καρύας κατέβην ἰδεῖν ἐν γενήμασιν τοῦ χειμάρρου,
ἰδεῖν εἰ ἤνθησεν ἡ ἄμπελος,
ἐξήνθησαν αἱ ῥόαι·
ἐκεῖ δώσω τοὺς μαστούς μου σοί.
 I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley,
to see if the vine flowered,
[if] the pomegranates blossomed.		 
11οὐκ ἔγνω ἡ ψυχή μου· ἔθετό με ἅρματα Αμιναδαβ.
Ἑπίστρεφε ἐπίστρεφε, ἡ Σουλαμῖτις·
ἐπίστρεφε ἐπίστρεφε, καὶ ὀψόμεθα ἐν σοί.
 There I will give thee my breasts:
my soul knew [it] not:
it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.		 
12Ἑπίστρεφε ἐπίστρεφε, ἡ Σουλαμῖτις, ἐπίστρεφε ἐπίστρεφε, καὶ ὀψόμεθα ἐν σοί.
 Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee.
What will ye see in the Sunamite?
She comes as bands of armies.		The women (a). She (b). Sg.6.13
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Notes:

The Old Testament in Greek is Rahlf's LXX available in Word format at the Tyndale website, adapted to database format.
The alternative readings of the LXX - Judges (Alexandrinus), Daniel, Susanna & Bel (LXX received text), and Tobit (Sinaiticus [not printed in Swete]) as separate book references so that they can be viewed as an alternative text in parallel with the primary text.
(I have reversed the Swete presentation for Daniel, Susanna, Bel by listing in the later Theodotion LXX text as the main text. )
The LXX cross references to the Hebrew Bible have been extensively revised using those set out in Swete's 'Old Testament in Greek' publications between 1894 and 1909, amended in part to agree with verses as printed in the Biblia Hebraica (1937 publication).
Some verse cross references in Swete's had to be amended to agree with the BHS verse numbering, and there may well be some mismatches that I haven't yet picked up on. (If you find any errors please e-mail me.)
Hebrew Bible has been adapted from the BHS in Word format at Tyndale.
The Septuagint in English ( translated by Sir Lancelot CL Brenton) - is used here only for the books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Revised Standard Version: This generally follows the Hebrew Bible for the canonical OT so I have included the RSV Aprocrypha for the Greek books not covered by Brenton.
Ecclesiasticus - Sirach Chs.30-36: The text of these chapters from 30.24 to 36.16, is disordered.
I have followed Swete's verse numbering for the greek text.
Also, the RSV verse numbering differs from the NRSV.
The NRSV appears to have followed Swete's numbering here, so I have re-ordered the RSV to agree with both the NRSV & Swete for these chapters.
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