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.

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.

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)