1參孫下到亭拿，在那裡看中了一個非利士女子。2他回到家裡便對父母說：「我在亭拿看中一個非利士女子，把她給我娶來做妻子吧！」3他父母說：「難道我們的親族和同胞中，沒有一個令你滿意的女子嗎？你為什麼要娶未受割禮的非利士人的女子呢？」參孫卻說：「我很喜歡她，請給我把她娶過來吧！」4他的父母不知道這事是出於耶和華的旨意，祂要找機會對付非利士人。那時，非利士人統治著以色列。5參孫跟父母一起去亭拿，走到亭拿的葡萄園時，有一頭壯獅吼叫著撲向他。6耶和華的靈降在參孫身上，他雖然手無寸鐵，竟撕裂了那頭獅子，就像撕裂一隻山羊羔一樣。他沒有把這事告訴父母。7到了亭拿，參孫跟那女子交談，很喜歡她。8過了些日子，參孫下去迎娶她，途中他順便去看那隻死獅子，見死獅子體內有一群蜜蜂和一些蜂蜜，9就用手取了一些蜜，邊走邊吃。到了父母那裡，他給了他們一些，他們也吃了。但他沒有告訴父母蜂蜜是從死獅子體內取的。10參孫的父親去那女子家，參孫按習俗擺設宴席。11眾人看見參孫，就安排了三十個人陪他。12參孫對他們說：「我出一個謎語，如果你們可以在這七天的婚宴期間猜出來，我就送你們三十件細麻衣和三十件外袍。13如果猜不中，你們就要給我三十件細麻衣和三十件外袍。」他們說：「請你出謎語吧！」14參孫說： 「食物出自食者， 甜物出自強者。」 三天過後，他們仍然猜不出來。15到了第四天，他們對參孫的妻子說：「你要哄你的丈夫把謎底說出來，不然我們就把你和你父親一家全燒死。你們邀請我們來，難道是要叫我們傾家蕩產嗎？」16於是，參孫的妻子向他哭訴說：「你是恨我，不是愛我。你給我的族人出了謎語，卻沒有告訴我謎底。」參孫回答說：「我連父母都沒有告訴，又怎能告訴你呢？」17在七天的婚宴期間，她一直在丈夫跟前哭哭啼啼。到了第七天，參孫經不住妻子的催逼就把謎底告訴了她。她把謎底告訴了她的族人。18在第七天日落之前，城裡的人對參孫說： 「有什麼比蜂蜜更甜？ 有什麼比獅子更強？」 參孫說： 「你們若不是利用我的小母牛耕田， 肯定猜不出來。」19耶和華的靈降在參孫身上，他便去亞實基倫殺了三十個人，擄走他們的衣服，交給猜中謎語的那些人，然後怒氣沖沖地回父親家去了。20參孫的妻子後來歸了他的伴郎。
English Standard Version
Samson’s Marriage
1Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.2Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”3But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”4His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.5Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.6Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.7Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.8After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.9He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.10His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.11As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.12And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,13but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”14And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve the riddle.15On the fourth* day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”16And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”17She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.18And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”19And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.20And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
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