I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;
The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.
Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.
Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night. King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon. He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;
She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders received them from Kue at a price.
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