JUDGES—NOTE ON Judges 14:15 fourth day. The Hebrew text has “seventh day” (compare v. Judges 14:18); the esv reading is based on Greek and Syriac versions (see esv footnote). The difference is only one letter in Hebrew, which could easily have been miscopied by a scribe in an early manuscript. “Fourth” fits better with the immediate context (v. 14 mentions three days of futile guessing about the riddle).

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