Judges 15:1
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Judg 15:1
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But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, "I will go in to my wife in {her} room." But her father did not let him enter.
Judg 15:2
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Her father said, "I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead."
Judg 15:3
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Samson then said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm."
Judg 15:4
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Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned {the foxes} tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.
Judg 15:5
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When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards {and} groves.
Judg 15:6
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Then the Philistines said, "Who did this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
Judg 15:7
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Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."
Judg 15:8
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He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
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