²⁷ Finish this daughter’s bridal week;^(A) then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.^(B)”

¹² “Let me tell you a riddle,^(A)” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast,^(B) I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.^(C)

¹⁸ “‘Do not take your wife’s sister^(A) as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

¹⁵ Has not the one God made you?^(A) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.^[a](B) So be on your guard,^(C) and do not be unfaithful^(D) to the wife of your youth.

¹⁰ Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast,^(A) as was customary for young men.