¹Zgodi se pa za nekaj časa, v dneh pšenične žetve, da obišče Samson ženo svojo in ji prinese kozliča. In reče: Pojdem noter k ženi svoji v stanico. A ni mu dovolil njen oče vstopiti.

¹And 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,

²In reče oče njen: Res sem mislil, da si ji postal sovražen, in sem jo dal tovarišu tvojemu. Ni li mlajša sestra njena lepša nego ona? Ta bodi tvoja namesto one.

²and 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.`

³Nato jim reče Samson: Sedaj pa ne bodem kriv proti Filistejcem, ako jim bom škodo delal.

³And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.`

⁴In Samson odide in ulovi tristo lisic in vzame bakle in zveže po dve in dve za repe ter dene vselej baklo med dva repa

⁴And 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,

⁵in jih prižge z ognjem, in jih pusti v žito Filistejcev in požge tako snopje in še rastoče žito in tudi olivnike.

⁵and 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.

⁶Tedaj reko Filistejci: Kdo je to storil? In odgovore: Samson, zet Timnatejca, ker mu je vzel ženo in jo dal njegovemu tovarišu. In Filistejci pridejo ter sežgo njo in očeta njenega z ognjem.

⁶And 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.

⁷In Samson jim reče: Če tako delate, gotovo ne neham, dokler se ne maščujem nad vami!

⁷And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!`

⁸In jim razbije pleča in ledja s hudimi udarci. Potem gre dol in prebiva v skalni razpoki v Etamu.

⁸And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

⁹Tedaj pridero Filistejci gori in se ušatore na Judovem in se razprostro v Lehi.

⁹And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

¹⁰Možje Judovi pa reko: Zakaj ste prišli gori zoper nas? Odgovore: Prišli smo zvezat Samsona, da mu storimo, kakor je storil nam.

¹⁰and the men of Judah say, `Why have ye come up against us?` and they say, `To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.`

¹¹Nato gre tri tisoč mož iz Jude doli k skalni razpoki v Etamu, in reko Samsonu: Ali ne veš, da nam vladajo Filistejci? Kaj je torej to, kar si nam storil? In jim reče: Kakor so oni storili meni, tako sem storil njim.

¹¹And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, `Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what [is] this thou hast done to us?` And he saith to them, `As they did to me, so I did to them.`

¹²Reko mu: Prišli smo doli te zvezat in izdat Filistejcem v roke. Samson jim veli: Prisezite mi, da me vi ne ubijete!

¹²And they say to him, `To bind thee we have come down — to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.` And Samson saith to them, `Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.`

¹³Odgovore mu, rekoč: Nikar, hočemo te le zvezati in te njim dati v roke; res te ne umorimo. In so ga zvezali z dvema novima vrvema in ga peljali gori od skale.

¹³And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;` and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

¹⁴Ko pride v Leho, zavriskajo Filistejci in mu gredo naproti. A duh GOSPODOV pride z močjo nad njega, in vrvi na rokah njegovih postanejo kakor niti, ko jih ogenj osmodi, in vezila njegova padejo z rok njegovih.

¹⁴He hath come unto Lehi — and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him — and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

¹⁵In najde čeljust oslovsko, še sirovo, ter iztegne roko in jo pobere in pobije ž njo tisoč mož.

¹⁵and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it — a thousand men.

¹⁶In Samson reče: Z oslovsko čeljustjo sem naredil eno kopo, dve kopi, z oslovsko čeljustjo sem pobil tisoč mož.

¹⁶And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass — an ass upon asses — with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.`

¹⁷In ko je to izrekel, vrže čeljust iz roke, in tisti kraj imenuje Ramat-lehi [T. j. Grič čeljusti.].

¹⁷And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calleth that place Ramath-Lehi;

¹⁸Bil pa je silno žejen, in kliče h GOSPODU in reče: Ti si dal tako veliko rešitev po roki hlapca svojega, in sedaj da bi umrl žeje in padel neobrezancem v roke!

¹⁸and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Thou — Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.`

¹⁹Tedaj razkolje Bog votlino, ki je v Lehi, in priteče voda iz nje; in ko se napije, se mu povrne duh in oživi. Zatorej so jo imenovali Studenec kličočega, ki je v Lehi do današnjega dne.In on je sodil Izraela za časa Filistejcev dvajset let.

¹⁹And God cleaveth the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath [one] called its name `The fountain of him who is calling,` which [is] in Lehi unto this day.

²⁰In on je sodil Izraela za časa Filistejcev dvajset let.

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