²³ Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

¹⁴ Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

¹⁹ ... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

²⁰ To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

²² The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.

²⁹ And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.

⁸ Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

¹⁷ I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

³ Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

¹³ As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.