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1 - And it cometh to pass, after <FI>some<Fi> days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;' and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

2 - and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister--the young one--better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

3 - And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'

4 - And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

5 - and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth <FI>them<Fi> out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth <FI>it<Fi> from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard--olive-yard.

6 - And the Philistines say, `Who hath done this?' And they say, `Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

7 - And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

8 - And he smiteth them hip and thigh--a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

9 - And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

10 - and the men of Judah say, `Why have ye come up against us?' and they say, `To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'

11 - And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, `Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what <FI>is<Fi> this thou hast done to us?' And he saith to them, `As they did to me, so I did to them.'

12 - And they say to him, `To bind thee we have come down--to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson saith to them, `Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.'

13 - And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;' and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

14 - He hath come unto Lehi--and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him--and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which <FI>are<Fi> on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

15 - and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it--a thousand men.

16 - And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass--an ass upon asses--with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'

17 - And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calleth that place Ramath-Lehi;

18 - and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Thou--Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.'

19 - And God cleaveth the hollow place which <FI>is<Fi> in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath <FI>one<Fi> called its name `The fountain of him who is calling,' which <FI>is<Fi> in Lehi unto this day.

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