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13 But if you are unable to explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.” So they said to him, “Tell your riddle; let us hear it.” 14 He said to them,

“From the eater came out food,
    From the strong came out sweet.”

But they were unable to explain the riddle for three days.

15 When it was the fourth[a] day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:15 Hebrew “seventh”; other ancient translations have “fourth”