¹And Samson came down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines.

²And he came up and told to his father and to his mother, and said, "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines; and now take it to me to the woman."

³And his father and his mother said to him, "Is there no woman in the daughters of your brothers and in all my people, that you go to take a woman from the Philistines, the uncircumcised?" And Samson said to his father, "Take it to me, for she pleased in my eyes."

⁴And his father and his mother did not know from Yahweh she pretext he was searching from Philistines, and in the time the she Philistines were ruling in Israel.

⁵And Samson came down to Timnah, and his father and his mother, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah; and a lion of the lions roared to encounter it.

⁶And the breath of Yahweh rushed over it, and he split it as the split of a young goat, and there was no thing in his hand; and he did not tell to his father and to his mother which he made.

⁷And he came down and spoke to the woman, and she pleased in the eyes of Samson.

⁸And he returned from days to take it, and he removed to see the carcass of the lion; and a congregation of bees was in the body of the lion, and honey.

⁹And he made to rule it to his palm, and he went and ate as he went; and he went to his father and to his mother and gave to them, and they ate; and he did not tell to them that he made to rule the honey from the body of the lion.

¹⁰And his father came down to the woman, and Samson made there a feast, for so the youngs will make.

¹¹And it happened, as they saw it, that they took thirty personals, and they were with it.

¹²And Samson said to them, "Let me pose to you a riddle; surely you will tell it to me in the seven days of the feast, and you will find it, and I will set to you thirty fine linens and thirty changes of the garments.

¹³And if you will not be able to tell to me, you will set to me thirty fine linens and thirty changes of the garments." And they said to him, "Pose your riddle, and we will hear it."

¹⁴And he said to them, "From the eater food went forth, and from the fierce went forth sweet." And they could not tell the riddle three days.

¹⁵And it happened in the seventh day, that they said to the woman of Samson, "Expand your husband, and let him tell to us the riddle, lest we burn you and the house of your father in the fire. To occupy us did you call us? Not so?"

¹⁶And the wife of Samson wept over him and said, "You only hated me and did not love me; you posed the riddle to the children of my people, and to me you did not tell it." And he said to it, "to my father and to my mother I did not tell, and to you will I tell?"

¹⁷And she wept over him the seven days which the drink was to them; and it was in the seventh day that he told to it, for she pressed it; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

¹⁸And the men of the city said to him in the seventh day, in not yet the scabies go, "What is sweet from the honey, and what is fierce from the lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed in my heifer, you would not have found my riddle."

¹⁹And the breath of Yahweh rushed over it, and he came down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men from them, and he took their garments and set the changes to those who told the riddle; and his anger burned, and he came up to the house of his father.

²⁰The wife of Samson was to his personal one, who was a special friend to him.