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Giudici 14

Nuova Riveduta 2006



1 Sansone scese a Timna e vide là una donna tra le figlie dei Filistei. 2 Tornato a casa, ne parlò a suo padre e a sua madre, e disse: «Ho visto a Timna una donna tra le figlie dei Filistei; prendetemela dunque per moglie». 3 Suo padre e sua madre gli dissero: «Non c’è tra le figlie dei tuoi fratelli in tutto il nostro popolo una donna per te? Devi andare a prenderti una moglie tra i Filistei incirconcisi?» Sansone rispose a suo padre: «Prendimi quella perché mi piace». 4 Suo padre e sua madre non sapevano che questo veniva dal Signore; Sansone infatti cercava un’occasione di contesa da parte dei Filistei. In quel tempo, i Filistei dominavano Israele. 5 Poi Sansone scese con suo padre e sua madre a Timna; e quando giunsero alle vigne di Timna, ecco un leoncello venirgli incontro ruggendo. 6 Lo Spirito del Signore investì Sansone, che, senza aver niente in mano, squartò la belva come uno squarta un capretto; ma non disse nulla a suo padre né a sua madre di ciò che aveva fatto. 7 E scese, parlò alla donna, e questa gli piacque. 8 Di lì a qualche tempo tornò per prenderla e uscì di strada per vedere la carcassa del leone; ed ecco nella carcassa del leone c’era uno sciame d’api e del miele. 9 Egli prese in mano il miele e si mise a mangiarlo per via; e quando ebbe raggiunto suo padre e sua madre, ne diede loro ed essi ne mangiarono; ma non disse loro che aveva preso il miele dalla carcassa del leone. 10 Suo padre scese a trovare quella donna e là Sansone fece un convito, perché tale era il costume dei giovani. 11 Appena i parenti della sposa videro Sansone, invitarono trenta compagni perché stessero con lui. 12 Sansone disse loro: «Io vi proporrò un enigma; se voi me lo spiegate entro i sette giorni del convito e se lo indovinate, vi darò trenta tuniche e trenta vesti; 13 ma, se non me lo potete spiegare, darete trenta tuniche e trenta vesti a me». 14 Quelli gli risposero: «Proponi il tuo enigma e noi lo ascolteremo». Egli disse loro: «Dal mangiatore è uscito del cibo, e dal forte è uscito il dolce». Per tre giorni quelli non poterono spiegare l’enigma. 15 Il settimo giorno dissero alla moglie di Sansone: «Tenta tuo marito affinché ci spieghi l’enigma; se no, daremo fuoco a te e alla casa di tuo padre. E che? ci avete invitati per spogliarci?» 16 La moglie di Sansone si mise a piangere presso di lui e a dirgli: «Tu non hai per me che dell’odio e non mi ami; hai proposto un enigma ai figli del mio popolo e non me l’hai spiegato!» Egli a lei: «Ecco, non l’ho spiegato né a mio padre né a mia madre e lo spiegherei a te?» 17 Lei pianse presso di lui, per i sette giorni che durava il convito; il settimo giorno Sansone glielo spiegò, perché lo tormentava; e lei spiegò l’enigma ai figli del suo popolo. 18 Gli uomini della città, il settimo giorno, prima che tramontasse il sole, dissero a Sansone: «Cos’è più dolce del miele? e chi è più forte del leone?» Egli rispose loro: «Se non aveste arato con la mia giovenca, non avreste indovinato il mio enigma». 19 Lo Spirito del Signore lo investì ed egli scese ad Ascalon, vi uccise trenta uomini, prese le loro spoglie e diede le vesti a quelli che avevano spiegato l’enigma. Poi, acceso d’ira, risalì a casa di suo padre. 20 Ma la moglie di Sansone fu data al compagno, che egli si era scelto per amico. 

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Giudici 14

English Standard Version



1 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. (Gen 38,12; Gios 15,10; Gios 19,43; Eb 11,32) 2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.” (Gen 34,4) 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.” (Gen 24,3; Gen 28,1; Giudic 15,18; 1Sam 14,6; 1Sam 17,26; 1Sam 17,36; 1Sam 31,4; 2Sam 1,20) 4 His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. (Gios 11,20; Giudic 13,1; Giudic 15,11) 5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. 6 Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. (Giudic 3,10; Giudic 14,19; Giudic 15,14; 1Sam 11,6) 7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes. 8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion. 10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do. 11 As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 12 And Samson said to them, “Let me now put 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 garments and thirty changes of clothes, (Gen 29,27; Gen 45,22; 1Re 10,1; 2Re 5,5; 2Re 5,22; Sal 78,2; Prov 1,6; Ez 17,2) 13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.” 14 And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve the riddle. 15 On the fourth[1] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” (Giudic 15,6; Giudic 16,5) 16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” (Giudic 16,15) 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. (Giudic 16,16) 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.” 19 And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house. (Giudic 1,18; Giudic 14,6) 20 And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man. (Giudic 15,2; Giudic 15,6; Giov 3,29) 

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