CLV(i)
1 And Samson goes down to Timnath, and sees a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,
2 and comes up and declares to his father, and to his mother, and said, `A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife..
3 And his father said to him--also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of your brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that you are going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson said unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes..
4 And his father and his mother have not known that from Yahweh it [is], that a meeting he is seeking of the Philistines; and at that time the Philistines are ruling over Israel.
5 And Samson goes down--also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come unto the vineyards of Timnath, and lo, a lion's whelp roars at meeting him,
6 and the Spirit of Yahweh prospers over him, and he rends it as the rending of a kid, and there is nothing in his hand, and he has not declared to his father and to his mother that which he has done.
7 And he goes down and speaks to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;"
8 and he turns back after [some] days to take her, and turns aside to see the carcase of the lion, and lo, a company of bees [are] in the body of the lion--and honey.
9 And he takes it down on to his hands, and goes on, going and eating; and he goes unto his father, and unto his mother, and gives to them, and they eat, and he has not declared to them that from the body of the lion he took down the honey.
10 And his father goes down unto the woman, and Samson makes there a banquet, for so the young men do;"
11 and it comes to pass when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.
12 And Samson said to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if you certainly declare it to me [in] the seven days of the banquet, and have found [it] out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;"
13 and if you are not able to declare [it] to me, then you have given to me thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments.' And they say to him, `Put forth your riddle, and we 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 were not able to declare the riddle [in] three days.
15 And it comes to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, `Entice your husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and the house of your father with fire; to possess us have you called for us? is it not?.