Judges 14:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Samson said to them, I will now put forth a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen undergarments and thirty changes of raiment.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can declare it unto me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And Samson said to them: "I will propose to you a problem, which, if you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts and the same number of tunics.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats.

Judges 14:12 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 45:22

To each one of them he gave a set of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments.

1 Kings 10:1

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with riddles.

2 Kings 5:22

He replied, “Yes, but my master has sent me to say, ‘Two members of a company of prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”

2 Kings 5:5

And the king of Aram said, “Go, then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments.

2 Chronicles 7:8

At that time Solomon held the festival for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Proverbs 31:24

She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchant with sashes.

Ezekiel 17:2

O mortal, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Matthew 13:13

The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’

Matthew 13:34

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

Matthew 27:28

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,

Luke 14:7

When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.

John 16:29

His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech!

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Judges 14:11

When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Judges 14:13

But if you cannot explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.” So they said to him, “Ask your riddle; let us hear it.”