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Her father said, “Because I honestly thought that you hated her deeply, I gave her in marriage to your best man.[a] Isn’t her younger sister better than she? Please then, let her be yours instead.”

Samson replied to them, “This time I’ll be blameless when I do something evil to the Philistines.” So Samson went out, caught 300 foxes, grabbed some torches,[b] tied[c] the foxes together in pairs at their tails,[d] and fastened a torch[e] between each pair of tails.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:2 Lit. your acquaintance; cf. Judg 14:20; 15:7
  2. Judges 15:4 Or firebrands
  3. Judges 15:4 Lit. turned
  4. Judges 15:4 Lit. foxes tail to tail
  5. Judges 15:4 Or firebrand