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Genesis 29:16
Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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Genesis 29:17
And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

Judges 14:10
Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.

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Judges 14:1
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;

Judges 14:2
And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.

Judges 14:3
Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.

Judges 14:4
Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

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Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

Judges 14:6
And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)

Judges 14:7
So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.

Judges 14:8
Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.

Judges 14:9
And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

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