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Judges 14:13

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but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”
They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”

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Judges 14:13 in other translations

but if ye cannot declare it unto me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

Judges 14:13 · American Standard Version

Judges 14:13 in context

  1. 11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
  2. 12Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
  3. 13but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”
    They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
  4. 14He said to them,
    “Out of the eater came out food.
    Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
    They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
  5. 15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”