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

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)

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

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)

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

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.

² 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) 3} 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)

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.