¹ I siđe Samson u Timnu i ugleda ondje djevojku među filistejskim kćerima.

² Vrativši se, povjeri to ocu i majci: "Opazio sam u Timni", reče on, "djevojku među filistejskim kćerima: oženite me njome."

³ Otac i mati rekoše: "Zar nema djevojaka među kćerima tvoga plemena i u svemu našem narodu da moraš uzeti ženu između neobrezanih Filistejaca?" Ali Samson odgovori ocu: "Oženi me njome jer mi ona omilje."

⁴ Otac mu i majka nisu znali da je to od Jahve, koji je tražio zadjevicu s Filistejcima jer Filistejci u ono doba vladahu Izraelom.

⁵ Samson siđe tako u Timnu i kad dođe do timnjanskih vinograda, gle - odjednom preda nj iskoči mladi lav ričući.

⁶ Duh Jahvin zahvati Samsona, i on goloruk raskida lava kao što se raskida jare; ali ne reče ni ocu ni majci što je učinio.

⁷ Došavši, razgovori se s djevojkom i ona mu omilje.

⁸ Poslije nekog vremena, kada se vratio da je odvede, Samson skrenu da vidi mrtvog lava, a to u mrtvom lavu roj pčela i med.

⁹ On uze meda u ruke i jeo ga je idući putem. Kada se vratio k ocu i majci, dade ga i njima te i oni jedoše; ali im ne reče da ga je uzeo iz mrtvog lava.

¹⁰ Zatim ode ženi i ondje prirediše gozbu Samsonu; trajala je sedam dana, jer tako običavahu mladi ljudi.

¹¹ Ali kako ga se bojahu, izabraše trideset svadbenih drugova da budu uza nj.

¹² Tad im reče Samson: "Hajde da vam zadam zagonetku. Ako je odgonetnete za sedam svadbenih dana, dat ću vam trideset truba finog platna i trideset svečanih haljina.

¹³ Ali ako je ne mognete odgonetnuti, vi ćete meni dati trideset truba platna i trideset svečanih haljina." "Zadaj nam zagonetku", odgovore mu oni, "mi te slušamo."

¹⁴ A on im reče: "Od onog koji jede izišlo je jelo, od jakoga izišlo je slatko." Ali za tri dana nisu mogli odgonetnuti zagonetke.

¹⁵ Četvrtoga dana rekoše Samsonovoj ženi: "Izvuci od muža na prijevaru rješenje zagonetke, ili ćemo spaliti i tebe i očev ti dom! Zar ste nas ovamo pozvali da nas oplijenite?"

¹⁶ Tada žena, uplakana, obisnu Samsonu oko vrata govoreći: "Ti mene samo mrziš i ne ljubiš me. Zadao si zagonetku sinovima moga naroda, a meni je nisi objasnio." On joj odgovori: "Nisam je objasnio ni ocu ni majci, a tebi da je kažem?"

¹⁷ Ona mu plakaše oko vrata sedam dana, koliko je trajala gozba. Sedmoga dana on joj kaza odgonetku: toliko je na nj navaljivala. I ona je odade sinovima svoga naroda.

¹⁸ Sedmoga dana, prije nego je zašlo sunce, ljudi iz toga grada rekoše Samsonu: "Što ima slađe od meda i što ima jače od lava?" A on im odgovori: "Da niste s mojom junicom orali, ne biste zagonetke pogodili."

¹⁹ Tada duh Jahvin dođe na njega, te on siđe u Aškelon i ondje pobi trideset ljudi, uze im odjeću i dade svečane haljine onima koji su odgonetnuli zagonetku, a onda se sav gnjevan vrati očevoj kući.

²⁰ A Samsonovu ženu dadoše drugu koji mu bijaše svadbeni pratilac.

¹ It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

² Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

³ She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

⁴ She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

⁵ She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

⁶ Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

⁷ Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.

⁸ Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

⁹ Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

¹⁰ The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

¹² After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

¹³ It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

¹⁴ She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

¹⁶ He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

¹⁷ He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

¹⁸ He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

¹⁹ She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

²⁰ Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

²¹ Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

²² He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

²³ Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

²⁴ It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

²⁵ When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

²⁶ Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

²⁷ It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁸ When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."

²⁹ It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

³⁰ Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.