en_tn_lite_do_not_use/jdg/16/27.md

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Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main story while the writer tells background information. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)

three thousand men and women

"3,000 men and women" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)

looking on

"watching"

while Samson was entertaining them

It is unclear what Samson did to entertain them. It seems the Philistines were making him do things that would humiliate him so that they could make fun of him.