Samson’s Riddle

¹² Then Samson said to them, “Let me now ^(A)propose a riddle for you; if you actually tell me ^[a]the answer within the seven days of the feast, and solve it, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty ^(B)outfits of clothes. ¹³ But if you are unable to tell me, then you shall give me thirty linen wraps and thirty outfits of clothes.” And they said to him, “Propose your riddle, so that we may hear it.” ¹⁴ So he said to them,

But they could not tell the answer to the riddle in three days.

¹⁵ Then it came about on the ^[b]fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “^(C)Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, ^(D)or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?”