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15 Later, during the time of the wheat harvest, Samson tried to return to his wife, bringing with him a young goat.

Samson: I want to go in and be with my wife.

But his father-in-law refused.

Samson’s Father-in-law: When you left us, I thought you didn’t want her anymore. So I gave her to your companion from the feast. Anyway her younger sister is much prettier than she is. Why don’t you take her instead?

Samson: This time no one will blame me when I hurt the Philistines.

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15 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

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