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,
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.'
3. And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'
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,
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.
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.
7. And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'
8. And he smiteth them hip and thigh--a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.
9. And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,