13 But if you cannot explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”

And they said to him, (A)“Pose your riddle, that we may hear it.”

14 So he said to them:

“Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something sweet.”

Now for three days they could not explain the riddle.

15 But it came to pass on the [a]seventh day that they said to Samson’s wife, (B)“Entice your husband, that he may explain the riddle to us, (C)or else we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us in order to take what is ours? Is that not so?

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:15 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. fourth

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