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Judges 14:5-12 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

5. While his father and mother went down to Timnah, Samson went to the vineyards of Timnah, and behold, a young lion came roaring at him.

6. Then the Ruach Adonai came mightily upon him, and he tore him apart as one would have split a young goat—yet he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

7. So he went down and talked with the woman, and she looked right in Samson’s eyes.

8. After a while he returned to get her, but turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.

9. So he scraped it into his hands and went on, eating as he went. Now when he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it, though he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

10. Then his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a banquet there, for so the young men used to do.

11. Now it came to pass, when they saw him, they brought 30 companions to be with him.

12. Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propose a riddle to you. If you can indeed solve it for me during the seven days of the banquet, and figure it out, then I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes;

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