Samson Defeats the Philistines

15 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a ^(A)young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

¹⁷ And he said, ^(A)“I will send a young goat from the flock.”

So she said, ^(B)“Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”

²⁹ So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may ^(A)go in to her.”

⁴ There were ^[a]giants on the earth in those ^(A)days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.