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Judges 15:4

Samson

2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

5 Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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BSB
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
KJV
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
WEB
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
ASV
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
DARBY
And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.
BLB
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and he took torches and turned them tail to tail, and he put one torch between the two tails in the middle.
ÅB
Så gikk Samson avsted og fanget tre hundre rever, og han tok fakler, vendte hale mot hale og satte en fakkel mellom to og to av halene.
OTB
Så gikk Samson og fanget tre hundre rever, og tok fakler, bandt revene hale til hale i par og satte en fakkel mellom hvert par haler.
B1930
Så gikk Samson avsted og fanget tre hundre rever, og han tok fakler, vendte hale mot hale og satte en fakkel mellem to og to av halene.

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