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  • Judges 14:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 16 So Samson’s wife wept over him and said: “You must hate me; you do not love me.+ You told a riddle to my people, but you have not told the answer to me.” At this he said to her: “Why, I have not told it even to my own father and mother! Should I tell it to you?”

  • Judges 14:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 16 So Samson’s wife wept over him and said: “You must hate me; you do not love me.+ You told a riddle to my people, but you have not told the answer to me.” At this he said to her: “Why, I have not told it even to my own father and mother! Should I tell it to you?”

  • Judges 14:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 16 Consequently Samson’s wife began to weep over him+ and to say: “You only hate me, you do, and you do not love me.+ There was a riddle that you propounded to the sons of my people,+ but to me you have not told it.” At this he said to her: “Why, to my own father and my own mother I have not told it,+ and ought I to tell it to you?”

  • Judges 14:16
    American Standard Version
    • 16 And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee?

  • Judges 14:16
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 16 And the wife of Samson wept upon him and said—Thou dost altogether hate me, and dost not love me, a riddle hast thou put forth to the sons of my people, and unto me thou hast not told it! And he said to her, Lo! to my own father and mother have I not told it, and to thee shall I tell it?

  • Judges 14:16
    King James Version
    • 16 And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

  • Judges
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 14:16 fl 62-63; w35 346

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