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Judges 16:1-2
New Living Translation
Judges 16:1-2
New Living Translation
Samson Carries Away Gaza’s Gates
16 One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute. 2 Word soon spread[a] that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town gates. They kept quiet during the night, saying to themselves, “When the light of morning comes, we will kill him.”
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- 16:2 As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew lacks Word soon spread.
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