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Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

מֵהָֽאֹכֵל֙ (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַחִידָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”

It happened on the seventh day, that 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? is it not [supplied: so]?

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַ֣חִידָ֔ה (הַ֣) ha. “the”

Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?

הַֽחִידָ֥ה (הַֽ) ha. “the”

She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

הַיָּמִ֔ים (הַ) hai. “the”הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַחִידָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

הָעִ֜יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַחַ֔רְסָה (הַ) ha. “the”

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [supplied: of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

הַחֲלִיפ֔וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”הַחִידָ֑ה (הַ) ha. “<of> the”

But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

הֶחָ֑דְרָה (הֶ) he. “the”

Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

הַקְּטַנָּה֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

הַפַּ֖עַם (הַ) ha. “this”

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.

הַזְּנָב֖וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”

Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

הַתִּמְנִ֔י (הַ) ha. “the”

They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

הַסָּֽלַע׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

הָעֲבֹתִ֜ים (הָ) ha. “the”

Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.

הַחֲמ֔וֹר (הַ) ha. “the”הַחֲמ֔וֹר (הַ) ha. “the”

It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.

הַלְּחִ֖י (הַ) ha. “the”הַה֖וּא (הַ) ha. “<the>”

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

הַתְּשׁוּעָ֥ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַגְּדֹלָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַזֹּ֑את (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָעֲרֵלִֽים׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

הַמַּכְתֵּ֣שׁ (הַ) ha. “the”הַיּ֥וֹם (הַ) hai. “the”הַזֶּֽה׃ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

[supplied: It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [supplied: Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

הַלַּ֖יְלָה (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַבֹּ֖קֶר (הַ) ha. “the”

Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

הַלַּיְלָה֒ (הַ) ha. “the”הַלַּ֗יְלָה (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִיר֙ (הָ) ha. “the”הַמְּזוּז֔וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”הַבְּרִ֔יחַ (הַ) ha. “the”הָהָ֔ר (הָ) ha. “the”

Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

הָאָדָֽם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

וְהָאֹרֵ֗ב (הָ) ha. “the”הַיְתָרִ֔ים (הַ) ha “the”הַנְּעֹ֙רֶת֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

הָאָדָֽם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב (הָ) ha. “the”

Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.

הַמַּסָּֽכֶת׃ (הַ) ha. “the”הַקִּיר (הַ) ha. “the”הָאָדָם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”