Judges 14:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.’ ¹⁴ He said to them,

But for three days they could not explain the riddle.

¹⁵ On the fourth^[a] day they said to Samson’s wife, ‘Coax your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?’