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Song of Solomon 1:5

1:5 black. The bride is dark of skin because of working long in the sun in the family vineyards (Song of Solomon 1:6), so that she looked like a Kedar native (descendant of Ishmael and the desert Arabians). Nevertheless, her beauty had brought her to young Solomon’s attention, and they soon fell in love, and Solomon took her as his bride.

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