om the body of the
lion.

14:10. So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his
son Samson: for so the young men used to do.

14:11. And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him
thirty companions to be with him.

14:12. 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:

14:13. 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.

14:14. And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of
the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days
expound the riddle.

14:15. And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson:
Sooth 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?

14:16. 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?

14:17. 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.

14:18. 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.

14:19. 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:

14:20. But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for
her husband.

Judges Chapter 15

Samson is denied his wife. He burns the corn of the Philistines, and
kills many of them.

15:1. And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at
hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid
of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual,
her father would not suffer him, saying:

15:2.