Praise of the Man’s Body

Song of Songs 5:10–16

4th–2nd Century BCE

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This description, also from the Song of Songs, is the male counterpart of “Praise of the Woman’s Body.”

¹⁰My beloved is clear-skinned and ruddy,

Preeminent among ten thousand.

¹¹His head is finest gold,

His locks are curled

And black as a raven.

¹²His eyes are like doves

By watercourses,

Bathed in milk,

Set by a brimming pool.

¹³His cheeks are like beds of spices,

Banks of perfume

His lips are like lilies;

They drip flowing myrrh.

¹⁴His hands are rods of gold,

Studded with beryl;

His belly a tablet of ivory,

Adorned with sapphires.

¹⁵His legs are like marble pillars

Set in sockets of fine gold.

He is majestic as Lebanon,

Stately as the cedars.

¹⁶His mouth is delicious

And all of him is delightful.

Such is my beloved,

Such is my darling,

O maidens of Jerusalem!

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Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.

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