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Judges 15:4-6
Contemporary English Version
Judges 15:4-6
Contemporary English Version
Samson Takes Revenge
4 Samson went out and caught 300 foxes and tied them together in pairs with oil-soaked rags around their tails. 5 Then Samson took the foxes into the Philistine wheat fields that were ready to be harvested. He set the rags on fire and let the foxes go. The wheat fields went up in flames, and so did the stacks of wheat that had already been cut. Even the Philistine vineyards and olive orchards burned.
6 Some of the Philistines started asking around, “Who could have done such a thing?”
“It was Samson,” someone told them. “He married the daughter of that man in Timnah, but then the man gave Samson's wife to one of the men at the wedding.”
The Philistine leaders went to Timnah and burned to death Samson's wife and her father.[a]
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- 15.6 and her father: Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations “and her family.”
Judges 15:4-6
New International Version
Judges 15:4-6
New International Version
4 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes(A) and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch(B) to every pair of tails, 5 lit the torches(C) and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks(D) and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.
6 When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.(E)”
So the Philistines went up and burned her(F) and her father to death.(G)
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