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Song of Solomon 7:13

Song of Solomon 7:13
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

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The mandrakes give a smell Heb. had-dûdhâ îm(LXX, οἱ μανδραγόραι), lit. -love plants." The mandrake is fully described in Tristram, Nat. Hist. pp. 466 ff. It belongs to the family of plants to which…