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12 Then Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle. If you can figure it out and tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I’ll give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes. 13 But if you can’t tell me the answer, then it’s you who have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.”

So they replied to him, “Tell your riddle; let’s hear it.”

14 He said to them,

“Out of the eater there came something to eat.
    Out of the strong there came something sweet.”

For three days they couldn’t tell the answer to the riddle.

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