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Judges 15 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - And it cometh to pass, after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, 'I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;' and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Samson saith of them, 'I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth them out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth it from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard -- olive-yard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - And the Philistines say, 'Who hath done this?' And they say, 'Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smiteth them hip and thigh -- a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:9 - And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - and the men of Judah say, 'Why have ye come up against us?' and they say, 'To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, 'Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what is this thou hast done to us?' And he saith to them, 'As they did to me, so I did to them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - And they say to him, 'To bind thee we have come down -- to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson saith to them, 'Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;' and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which are on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Samson saith, 'With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:17 - And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calleth that place Ramath-Lehi;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'Thou -- Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19 - And God cleaveth the hollow place which is in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath one called its name 'The fountain of him who is calling,' which is in Lehi unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Judges Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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