² Her father said, “I was so convinced that you hated her that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister better than she is? Please take her for yourself instead of her older sister.”

³ Samson said to them, “I am not responsible for the harm I am about to do to the Philistines.” ⁴ Then Samson went and captured three hundred foxes,^[a] took torches, tied the foxes tail to tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.