² And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, ^(A)so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

²⁰ And Samson's wife was given to ^(A)his companion, ^(B)who had been his best man.

^9 (A)“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of ^(B)Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁶ And Samson's wife wept over him and said, ^(A)“You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”

¹⁴ she took off her widow's garments ^(A)and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to ^(B)Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, ^(C)and she had not been given to him in marriage.