¹² And Samson saith to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me `in' the seven days of the banquet, and have found `it' out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

² `Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,

¹ And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, and cometh to try him with enigmas,

²² to all of them hath he given -- to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

²² And he saith, `Peace; my lord hath sent me, saying, Lo, now, this, come unto me have two young men from the hill-country of Ephraim, of the sons of the prophets; give, I pray thee, to them, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.'

⁵ And the king of Aram saith, `Go thou, enter, and I send a letter unto the king of Israel;' and he goeth and taketh in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand `pieces' of gold, and ten changes of garments.

⁶ For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

¹² for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

²⁹ His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

⁷ And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

⁵¹ and a certain young man was following him, having put a linen cloth about `his' naked body, and the young men lay hold on him,

⁵² and he, having left the linen cloth, did flee from them naked.

²⁸ and having unclothed him, they put around him a crimson cloak,

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

⁴⁹ And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

⁴ I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

⁸ And solomon maketh the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him -- a very great assembly -- from the entering in of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.

²⁷ fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

²⁸ And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;