¹² Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

² Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

¹ When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.

²² To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

²² He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.

⁵ The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

⁶ To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise.

² Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

²⁹ His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.

⁷ He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

⁵¹ A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,

⁵² but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

²⁸ They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

¹⁹ "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

⁸ So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

²⁸ Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.