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chapter 14
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Then
Samson went down to Thamnatlia, and seeing there a woman of the daughters of
the Philistines,
2 He came up, and told his father and his mother,
saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I
beseech you, take her for me to wife.
3 And his father and mother said to him: Is there no
woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou
wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to
his father: Take this woman for me, for she hath pleased my eyes.
4 Now his parents knew not that the thing was done by
the Lord, and that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that
time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to
Thamnatha. And when they were come to the vineyards of the town, behold a young
lion met him raging and roaring.
6 And the spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he
tore the lion as he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in
his hand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother.
7 And he went down and spoke to the woman that had
pleased his eyes.
8 And after some days returning to take her, he went
aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in
the mouth of the lion and a honeycomb.
9 And when be had taken it in his hands, he went on
eating: and coming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate:
but he would not tell them, that he had taken the honey from the body of the
lion.
10 So his father went down to the woman, and made a
feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do.
11 And when the citizens of that place saw him, they
brought him thirty companions to be with him.
12 And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a
riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will
give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:
13 But if you shall not be able to declare it, you
shall give me thirty shirts and the same number of coats. They answered him:
Put forth the riddle that we may hear it.
14 And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth
meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three
days expound the riddle.
15 And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife
of Samson: Soothe thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle
meaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy father's house.
Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip us?
16 So she wept before Samson and complained, saying:
Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the
riddle which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I
would not tell it to my father and mother, and how can I tell it to thee?
17 So she wept before him the seven days of the feast:
and at length on the seventh day as she was troublesome to him, he expounded
it. And she immediately told her countrymen.
18 And they on the seventh day before the sun went down
said to him: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And
he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out
my riddle.
19 And the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he
went down to Ascalon, and slew there thirty men, whose garments he took away
and gave to them that had declared the riddle. And being exceeding angry he
went up to his father's house:
20 But his wife took one of his friends and bridal
companions for her husband.
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