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Judges 15:1

World English Bible

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”
But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.

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Judges 15:1 in other translations

But it came to pass after a while, 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.

Judges 15:1 · American Standard Version

Judges 15:1 in context

  1. 1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”
    But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
  2. 2Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
  3. 3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”