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Samson’s Marriage

14 A while later, Samson went down to Timnah and observed a woman in Timnah who was of Philistine origin.[a] Then he returned and told his father and mother, “In Timnah I saw a woman of Philistine origin.”[b] He ordered them, “Get her for me as a wife. Now!”[c]

His father and mother asked him, “Isn’t there a woman suitable[d] among the daughters of your relatives or among all of our people, since you’re going to get your[e] wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”

But Samson retorted to his father, “Get her for me, since she looks fine to me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:1 Lit. Timnah from the daughters of Philistines
  2. Judges 14:2 Lit. woman from the daughters of Philistines
  3. Judges 14:2 Or So get her
  4. Judges 14:3 The Heb. lacks suitable
  5. Judges 14:3 Lit. a