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12 “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson told them. “If you can solve it during this week-long festival, I’ll give you 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments.[a] 13 But if you don’t solve it,[b] then you’ll give me 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments.”[c]

“Tell us your riddle and we’ll solve it,” they responded.

14 So he told them:

From the eater came something edible;
    from the strong something sweet.

For three days they couldn’t solve the riddle.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:12 Or 30 changes of clothes
  2. Judges 14:13 Lit. don’t tell me
  3. Judges 14:13 Or 30 changes of clothes