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.

¹Po kurio laiko, kviečių pjūties metu, Samsonas atėjo aplankyti savo žmonos ir atnešė jai ožiuką. Samsonas sakė: “Aš noriu įeiti į kambarį pas savo žmoną”. Bet jos tėvas jo neleido,

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.”

²tardamas: “Aš tikrai maniau, kad tu jos nekenti, todėl ją atidaviau tavo pabroliui. Argi jos jaunesnioji sesuo nėra gražesnė už ją? Imk ją vietoj anos”.

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

³Tada Samsonas atsakė: “Šį kartą nenusikalsiu, atkeršydamas filistinams”.

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.

⁴Samsonas, sugavęs tris šimtus lapių, surišo jas po porą uodegomis ir tarp uodegų įrišo po deglą.

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.

⁵Uždegęs deglus, jis paleido lapes į filistinų javus. Taip jis padegė javų pėdus, nepjautus javus, vynuogynus ir alyvmedžių sodus.

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.

⁶Filistinai klausė: “Kas tai padarė?” Jiems atsakė: “Samsonas, timniečio žentas, keršydamas už žmonos atidavimą pabroliui”. Atėję filistinai sudegino ją ir jos tėvą.

⁷Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.”

⁷Samsonas jiems tarė: “Nors jūs tai padarėte, nurimsiu tik tada, kai jums atkeršysiu”.

⁸He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

⁸Jis smarkiai puolė juos ir, sulaužęs jų blauzdų ir šlaunų kaulus, nuėjo į Etamą ir apsigyveno ant uolos.

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

⁹Tada filistinai atėję pasistatė stovyklas Judo žemėje iki Lehio.

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.”

¹⁰Judas klausė: “Kodėl išėjote prieš mus?” Tie atsakė: “Samsono surišti ir padaryti jam taip, kaip jis mums padarė”.

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.”

¹¹Tada trys tūkstančiai Judo vyrų atėjo prie Etamo uolos ir klausė Samsoną: “Argi nežinai, kad mus valdo filistinai? Kodėl taip padarei?” Jis atsakė: “Kaip jie man padarė, taip aš jiems padariau”.

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.”

¹²Judo vyrai tarė jam: “Mes atėjome tavęs surišti ir atiduoti filistinams”. Samsonas atsakė: “Prisiekite man, kad jūs patys manęs nenužudysite”.

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.

¹³Jie jam atsakė: “Mes tave tvirtai surišime ir atiduosime filistinams, bet patys tavęs nenužudysime”. Jie surišo jį dviem naujomis virvėmis ir nusivedė.

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.

¹⁴Prie Lehio filistinai pasitiko jį šūkaudami iš džiaugsmo. Viešpaties Dvasia galingai nužengė ant jo, ir virvės ant jo rankų sutrūko kaip sudegę linai ir nukrito nuo jo.

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

¹⁵Jis susirado šviežią asilo žandikaulį ir, paėmęs jį, užmušė juo tūkstantį filistinų.

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

¹⁶Tuomet Samsonas tarė: “Asilo žandikauliu nužudžiau tūkstantį vyrų ir suverčiau į krūvas”.

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.

¹⁷Taip pasakęs, jis nusviedė žandikaulį. Tą vietą pavadino Ramat Lehiu.

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?”

¹⁸Labai ištroškęs, jis šaukėsi Viešpaties: “Tu davei man šitokią pergalę, o dabar mirštu iš troškulio ir pateksiu į neapipjaustytųjų rankas!”

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.

¹⁹Dievas atvėrė daubą Lehyje, ir iš jos tekėjo vanduo. Atsigėręs jis atsigaivino ir atgavo jėgas. Tą vietą pavadino En Korės versme; ji tebėra ten iki šios dienos.

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

²⁰Filistinų laikais Samsonas teisė Izraelį dvidešimt metų.