Judges 15:1-8

English Standard Version (Chapter 15)

After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

After some days, at the time of wheat harvest:

Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat

He said, I will go in to my wife in the chamber

But her father would not allow him to go in.

And her father said, I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she

Please take her instead.”

English Standard Version (Chapter 15)

And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.” So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.

And Samson said to them:

This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm

So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches

And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails

And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines

And set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.

English Standard Version (Chapter 15)

Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

Then the Philistines said:

Who has done this

And they said Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite

Because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion

And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

English Standard Version (Chapter 15)

And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And Samson said to them:

If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you and after that I will quit

And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow

And he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.