The Bible describes being in love most fully in the Song of Solomon, where a woman and a man take turns speaking about each other. She searches the city for “him whom my soul loves” (Song of Solomon 3:4), and the poem says that “love is strong as death” (Song of Solomon 8:6). Genesis adds Jacob, whose seven years of work for Rachel “seemed to him but a few days” (Genesis 29:20), and the first man’s words on meeting the…
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