Judges 14
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 14:15-18

15Then it came about on the 1fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “2Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, 3or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?” 16Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “4You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?” 17However she wept before him seven days while their feast lasted. And on the seventh day he told her because she pressed him so hard. She then told the riddle to the sons of her people. 18So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, You would not have found out my riddle.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 14:15 So with some ancient versions; Heb seventh ↩
  2. 2. Judges 14:15 Judg 16:5 ↩
  3. 3. Judges 14:15 Judg 15:6 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 14:16 Judg 16:15 ↩

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