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Judges 15:5

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

4 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.

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.

7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

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BSB
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.
KJV
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
WEB
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
ASV
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
DARBY
And he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.
BLB
And he kindled fire in the torches and sent [them] out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up from the shocks and to the standing grain, and to the vineyards [and] olive groves.
ÅB
Så tente han ild i faklene og slapp revene inn på filistrenes akrer, og han brant opp både kornbånd og uskåret korn og oljehaver.
OTB
Han satte fyr på faklene og slapp revene løs i filisternes stående korn, og brente både kornbåndene og det stående kornet, samt vingårdene og olivenlundene.
B1930
Så tendte han ild i faklene og slapp revene inn på filistrenes akrer, og han brente op både kornbånd og uskåret korn og oljehaver.

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  • 2 Samuel 14:30

    Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

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  • Exodus 22:6

    If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

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