Thematic Bible: The roe


Thematic Bible



Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.


Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.


The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.


And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;


And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;


There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.


As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.


As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.


There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.


Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.


Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain