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 happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife into the room.” But her father wouldn’t allow 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.

²Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.”

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

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

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

⁴Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch 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.

⁵When 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 olive groves.

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 has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion.” 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.

⁷Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, 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.

⁸He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived 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.

¹⁰The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has 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, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to 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!

¹²They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not fall on 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.

¹³They spoke to him, saying, “No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you.” 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 to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on 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.

¹⁵He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

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

¹⁶Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”

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

¹⁷It happened, 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.

¹⁸He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your 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 split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

²⁰A súdil Izraela za času Filištínov dvadsať rokov.

²⁰He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.