Rashi, on Song 3:4

“When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.”

“I had just passed them shortly before their separation from me, at the end of the forty years. when I found that He was with me in the days of Joshua to vanquish the thirty-one kings. I held him and would not let him go I did not loosen my grasp from Him until I brought Him to the Tabernacle at Shiloh because of all that He had done for me.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.