Judges 14:12 meaning and explanation

“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

Judges 14:12, Berean Standard Bible

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Samson has just married a Philistine woman from Timnah, and thirty Philistine men have been assigned to accompany him at the wedding feast. In that setting he proposes a wager: if they solve his riddle within the seven days of celebration, he owes them thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothing; if not, they owe him the same.

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