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Samson Takes a Philistine as His Wife

14 Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines. So he came back up and told his father and [a]mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, take her for me as a wife.” But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [b](A)relatives, or among all [c]our people, that you go to (B)take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:2 Lit mother, saying,
  2. Judges 14:3 Lit brothers
  3. Judges 14:3 Lit my