Judges 14:15
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14:15On the fourth29 day they said to Samson’s bride, “Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle.30 If you refuse,31 we will burn up32 you and your father’s family.33 Did you invite us here34 to make us poor?”35
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- 29 The reads “seventh.” In Hebrew there is a difference of only one letter between the words רְבִיעִי (révi’i, “fourth”) and שְׁבִיעִי (shévi’i, “seventh”). Some ancient textual witnesses (e.g., and the ) read “fourth,” here, which certainly harmonizes better with the preceding verse (cf. “for three days”) and with v. 17. Another option is to change שְׁלֹשֶׁת (shéloshet, “three”) at the end of v. 14 to שֵׁשֶׁת (sheshet, “six”), but the resulting scenario does not account as well for v. 17, which implies the bride had been hounding Samson for more than one day.
- 30 Heb “Entice your husband so that he might tell us the riddle.”
- 31 Heb “lest.”
- 32 The Hebrew text expands the statement: “burn up with fire.” The words “with fire” are redundant in English and have been omitted from the translation for stylistic reasons.
- 33 Heb “house.”
- 34 The translation assumes the Hebrew form הֲלֹם (halom, “here,” attested in five Hebrew and supported by the ), instead of the inexplicable הֲלֹא (halo’), a negative particle with interrogative particle prefixed to it.
- 35 For discussion of this difficult form, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 364.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
On 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?”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s family to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
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NLTNew Living Translation
On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle for us, or we will burn down your father’s house with you in it. Did you invite us to this party just to make us poor?”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
When it was the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?”
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KJV 1900King James Version
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
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