KJV King James Version
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
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Song of Solomon 6:8
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
WEB World English Bible
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
ASV American Standard Version
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 6
5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
6 Thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and [there is] not one barren among them.
7 As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.
8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with banners?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegranates budded.
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Cross-references
Psalm 45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.1 Kings 11:3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;Psalm 45:9Kings’ daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.2 Chronicles 11:21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)Revelation 7:9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
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