Commentary for Bava Batra 181:11

ובכל אחת ואחת עשה שני משתאות אחד בבית אביו ואחד בבית חמיו ובכולן לא זימן את מנוח אמר כודנא עקרה במאי פרעא לי

and in the case of everyone [of these] he made two wedding feasts, one in the house of the father and one in the house of the father-inlaw. To none of them did he invite Manoah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Ibid. XIII, 2ff. ');">¹⁹</span> [for] he said, 'Whereby will the barren mule repay me?'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Manoah, before the birth of Samson, had no children to whose wedding feasts he could extend invitations. Cf. Ibid. ');">²⁰</span>

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