go out for four days to bewail the
death of the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite.

SAMSON WHO DID TO OTHERS AS THEY DID TO HIM

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the clan of the Danites, named
Manoah; and he and his wife had no children. But the angel of Jehovah
appeared to the woman and said to her, "See, you have no children; but
now be careful not to drink any wine nor strong drink, and do not eat
anything unclean, for you are about to have a son. No razor shall be
used upon your son's head, for from birth the boy shall belong to God."
So the woman had a son and named him Samson.

Once Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a Philistine woman. When
he came back he said to his father and mother, "I have seen a Philistine
woman in Timnah. Get her as a wife for me." But his father and mother
said to him, "Is there no woman in your own tribe or among all our
people, that you must marry a wife from among the heathen Philistines?"
But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she suits me."

So Samson went with his father and mother to Timnah; and just as they
came to the vineyards of Timnah, a full-grown young lion came roaring
toward him. The spirit of Jehovah came upon Samson and, although he had
nothing in his hand, he tore the beast in two as one tears a kid. But he
did not tell his father and mother what he had done.

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she suited him. When he
returned after a while to marry her, he turned aside to see what was
left of the lion, and there was a swarm of bees and honey in the
carcass. He scraped the honey out into his hands and went on, eating it
as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them,
and they ate; but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out
of the carcass of the lion.

Then Samson went down to the woman; and he gave a feast there (for so
bridegrooms used to do). When the Philistines saw him, they provided
thirty comrades to be with him. And Samson said to them, "Let me now
tell you a riddle. If you can tell me what it is within the seven days
of the feast, I will give you thirty fine linen robes and thirty suits
of clothes; but if you cannot tell me, then you shall give me thirty
fine linen robes and thirty suits of clothes." They said to him, "Tell
your riddle, that we may hear it." And he said to them:

"Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something swe