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13 But if you are not able to tell me, you will give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”

So they said to him, “Tell your riddle. Let us hear it!”

14 Samson said to them,

Out of the eater comes something to eat.

Out of the strong comes something sweet.

But they were not able to solve the riddle for three days.

15 Then, on the fourth day,[a] they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband so that you can tell us the solution to the riddle, or we will set you on fire with the house of your father. You invited us in order to take our property, didn’t you?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:15 The translation follows a reading of the Greek and Syriac Old Testaments. The Hebrew reads on the seventh day.