Proverbs 7:16 {17}
Good News Translation
I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;

Contemporary English Version
The sheets on my bed are bright-colored cloth from Egypt.

New American Bible
With coverlets I have spread my couch, with brocaded cloths of Egyptian linen;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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

decked

Songs 1:16 The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

Songs 3:7-10 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon? . . .

Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they that commit adultery with her shall be in very great tribulation, except they do penance from their deeds,

fine

1 Kings 10:28 And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for the king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set price.

Isaiah 19:9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen.

Ezekiel 27:7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
15I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt. 16I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.17Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.…
Cross References
Proverbs 7:15
I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.

Proverbs 31:22
She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering.

Isaiah 19:9
They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen.

Ezekiel 27:7
Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.

Proverbs 7:15
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