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|Jueces 14:11|
When he appeared, he was given thirty companions.
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12
|Jueces 14:12|
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
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13
|Jueces 14:13|
If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”
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14
|Jueces 14:14|
He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” For three days they could not give the answer.
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15
|Jueces 14:15|
On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
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|Jueces 14:16|
Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”
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|Jueces 14:17|
She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
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|Jueces 14:18|
Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”
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|Jueces 14:19|
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of their belongings and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he went up to his father’s house.
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|Jueces 14:20|
And Samson’s wife was given to the friend who had attended him at his wedding.
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