⁷ Then he went down and talked to the woman, and she pleased Samson.^{[a] 8} And he returned after awhile to marry her,^[b] and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there was a swarm of wild honey bees in the body of the lion, and honey. ⁹ He scraped it out into his hands, and he went on, eating it as he went. And he went to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the body of the lion.