Proverbs 7:17 “I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.”

Proverbs 7:17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

World English Bible

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

American Standard Version

I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Darby Translation

I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Young's Literal Translation

I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Bible in Basic English

I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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Cross references

“perfumed”

Isaiah 57:7–9 Song of Solomon 3:6

Isaiah 57:7–9 · BSB

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

Song of Solomon 3:6 · BSB

Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

“with”

Psalm 45:8 Song of Solomon 4:13 Song of Solomon 4:14

Psalm 45:8 · BSB

All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.

Song of Solomon 4:13 · BSB

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

Song of Solomon 4:14 · BSB

with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

Also

Exodus 30:23

Exodus 30:23 · BSB

“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

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