¹ And it was, after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats; and he said, I will go·​·in to^▵ my wife into the chamber. But her father would not grant him to go·​·in.

² And her father said, Saying I said that hating thou didst hate her; and I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger^◦ sister better than she? Let her be thine instead of her.

³ And Samson said unto them, This time^◦ shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, when^◦ I^◦ do evil unto them.

⁴ And Samson went and captured three hundred foxes, and took torches, and he faced them tail to^▵ tail, and set one torch between two tails in the midst.

⁵ And he set the torches on fire, and sent them off into the standing·​·grain of the Philistines, and burnt from shock even·​·to standing·​·grain and to the vineyards of olives.

⁶ And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because^◦ he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came·​·up and burnt her and her father with fire.

⁷ And Samson said unto them, Since^◦ you have done this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after·​·that I will stop.

⁸ And he smote them hip upon thigh with a great smiting; and he went·​·down and dwelt in the crag of the rock^◦ Etam.

⁹ And the Philistines went·​·up and encamped in Judah, and were extended in Lechi.

¹⁰ And the men^◦ of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as^◦ he has done to us.

¹¹ And three thousand men^◦ from Judah went·​·down to^▵ the crag of the rock^◦ Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? And what is this that thou doest to us? And he said to them, As^◦ they did to me, so have I done to them.

¹² And they said unto him, To bind thee have we come·​·down, to give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Promise to me that you^◦ will not fall·​·upon me yourselves.

¹³ And they said to him, saying, No^◦, for^◦ binding we will bind thee, and give thee into their hand; but putting·​·to·​·death we will not put· thee ·to·​·death. And they bound him with two new ropes and brought· him ·up from the rock^◦.

¹⁴ He^◦ came even·​·to Lehi, and the Philistines shouted to meet him; and the spirit of Jehovah came·​·mightily on him, and the ropes which were on his arms were as flax which is burnt with fire, and his bonds were melted from on his hands.

¹⁵ And he found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put·​·forth^◦ his hand and took it, and smote with it a thousand men^◦.

¹⁶ And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, a heap^▫, two heaps^▫; with the jawbone of a donkey have I smitten a thousand men^◦.

¹⁷ And it was, when he had completed speaking that he^◦ cast the jawbone from his hand, and called the place Ramath-lehi^*.

¹⁸ And he thirsted exceedingly, and called to^▵ Jehovah and said, Thou^◦ hast given this great salvation into the hand of thy servant; and now shall· I ·die of thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

¹⁹ And God split·​·open the hollow place that is in the jawbone, and water came·​·out from it, and he drank, and his spirit returned to him, and he lived; wherefore he called the name thereof, En-hakkoreh, which is in Lehi to^◦ this day.

²⁰ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.