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“When you left the way you did, I thought you were divorcing[a] her. So I arranged for her to marry one of the young men who were at your party. But my younger daughter is even prettier, and you can have her as your wife.”

“This time,” Samson answered, “I have a good reason for really hurting some Philistines.”

Samson Takes Revenge

Samson went out and caught 300 foxes and tied them together in pairs with oil-soaked rags around their tails.

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  1. 15.2 divorcing: It was often very easy for a husband to divorce his wife.

“I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion.(A) Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”

Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.” So he went out and caught three hundred foxes(B) and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch(C) to every pair of tails,

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