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27 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”(A)

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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)

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12 Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.(A)

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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)

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18 And you shall not take[a] a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

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  1. 18.18 Or marry

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

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15 Did God[a] not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.[b](A)

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  1. 2.15 Heb he
  2. 2.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.

10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, as the young men were accustomed to do.

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

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10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark, 11 and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.(A) 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and it did not return to him any more.

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10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.(A) 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

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On the sixth[a] day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.(A) So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.(B)

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  1. 2.2 Sam Gk Syr: MT seventh

By the seventh day(A) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(B) Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,(C) because on it he rested(D) from all the work of creating(E) that he had done.

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10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

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10 For the love of money(A) is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith(B) and pierced themselves with many griefs.(C)

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