¹A stalo sa po nejakom čase, vo dňoch pšeničnej žatvy, že Samson navštívil svoju ženu s kozľaťom a riekol: Vojdem ku svojej žene do komory. Ale mu nedal jej otec, aby vošiel.

¹But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

²A jej otec povedal: Ja som naozaj myslel, že ju doista nenávidíš, preto som ju dal tvojmu priateľovi. Ale veď či nie je jej mladšia sestra peknejšia ako ona? Nechže ti je tá miesto nej.

²And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

³Vtedy im povedal Samson? Tento raz budem bez viny u Filištínov, keď im vykonám zlé.

³And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

⁴A tak odišiel Samson a nachytal tristo líšek, vzal fakle a obrátiac chvost ku chvostu vložil po jednej fakli medzi dva chvosty do prostredku.

⁴And 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.

⁵Potom zapálil fakle a pustil líšky do stojaceho zbožia Filištínov a tak zapálil všetko, od snopa až po to, čo ešte stálo na koreni, a tak až po vinice a olivy.

⁵And 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.

⁶Vtedy vraveli Filištíni: Kto to urobil? A ktorísi povedali: Samson, zať Timňanského, pretože vzal jeho ženu a dal ju jeho priateľovi. Vtedy vyšli Filištíni hore a spálili ju i jej otca ohňom.

⁶Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

⁷A Samson im povedal. Ak vy robíte tak, istotne sa pomstím na vás a potom prestanem.

⁷And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

⁸A zbil ich, lýtko i s bedrom, veľkou porážkou. A potom odišiel dolu a býval v rozpukline skaly Étam.

⁸And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

⁹Vtedy vyšli Filištíni hore a položili sa táborom v Júdovi a rozprestreli sa v Lechi.

⁹Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

¹⁰A mužovia Júdovi im povedali: Prečo ste vyšli hore proti nám? A povedali: Poviazať Samsona sme vyšli, aby sme mu urobili tak, ako on nám urobil.

¹⁰And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

¹¹Vtedy sišlo dolu tri tisíce mužov z Júdu a prišli k rozpukline skaly Étam a povedali Samsonovi: Či ty nevieš, že nad nami panujú Filištíni, a čo si nám to tedy vykonal? A on im riekol: Ako oni mne vykonali, tak som i ja im vykonal.

¹¹Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

¹²A riekli mu: Sišli sme ťa poviazať, aby sme ťa vydali do ruky Filištínov. Na to im povedal Samson: Prisahajte mi, že sa vy sami neoboríte na mňa!

¹²And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

¹³A oni mu odpovedali a riekli: Nie, len ťa dobre poviažeme a vydáme ťa do ich ruky, ale zabiť nezabijeme ťa. A tak ho poviazali dvoma novými povrazmi a odviedli ho zo skaly hore k Filištínom.

¹³And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

¹⁴A keď prišiel až do Lechi, Filištíni kričali od radosti oproti nemu. Ale prišiel na neho Duch Hospodinov, a povrazy, ktoré boly na jeho ramenách, staly sa jako ľanové niti, ktoré zhoria na ohni, a jeho putá sa rozplynuly s jeho rúk.

¹⁴When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

¹⁵A našiel osliu čelusť, ešte čerstvú, a vystrúc svoju ruku pochytil ju a pobil ňou tisíc mužov.

¹⁵And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

¹⁶Vtedy povedal Samson: Čelusťou osla hromadu, dve hromady, čelusťou osla som pobil tisíc mužov.

¹⁶And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

¹⁷A stalo sa, keď dohovoril, že odhodil čelusť zo svojej ruky a nazval to miesto Rámat-lechi.

¹⁷And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.

¹⁸A súc veľmi smädný volal k Hospodinovi a riekol: Ty si dal rukou svojho služobníka toto veľké spasenie, a hľa, teraz zomriem smädom a padnem do ruky tých neobrezancov.

¹⁸And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

¹⁹Vtedy rozpoltil Bôh priehlbinu, ktorá je v Lechi, a vyšly z nej vody, a napil sa, a navrátil sa jeho duch, a ožil. Preto nazvali jej meno Én-hakkóre, ktorý je v Lechi, a tak sa volá až do tohoto dňa.

¹⁹But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

²⁰A súdil Izraela za času Filištínov dvadsať rokov.

²⁰And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.