1 E aconteceu, depois de alguns dias, que, na sega do trigo, Sansão visitou a sua mulher, com um cabrito, e disse: Entrarei na câmara de minha mulher. Porém o pai dela não o deixou entrar.
2 E disse-lhe seu pai: Por certo pensava eu que de todo a desprezavas; de sorte que a dei ao teu companheiro; porém não é sua irmã mais nova, mais formosa do que ela? Toma-a, pois, em seu lugar.
3 Então Sansão disse acerca deles: Inocente sou esta vez para com os filisteus, quando lhes fizer algum mal.
4 E foi Sansão, e pegou trezentas raposas; e, tomando tochas, as virou cauda a cauda, e lhes pôs uma tocha no meio de cada duas caudas.
5 E chegou fogo às tochas, e largou-as na seara dos filisteus; e assim abrasou os molhos com a sega do trigo, e as vinhas e os olivais.
6 Então perguntaram os filisteus: Quem fez isto? E responderam: Sansão, o genro do timnita, porque lhe tomou a sua mulher, e a deu a seu companheiro. Então subiram os filisteus, e queimaram a fogo a ela e a seu pai.
7 Então lhes disse Sansão: É assim que fazeis? Pois, havendo-me vingado eu de vós, então cessarei.
8 E feriu-os com grande ferimento, pernas juntamente com coxa; e desceu, e habitou na fenda da rocha de Etã.
9 Então os filisteus subiram, e acamparam-se contra Judá, e estenderam-se por Leí.
10 E perguntaram-lhes os homens de Judá: Por que subistes contra nós? E eles responderam: Subimos para amarrar a Sansão, para lhe fazer a ele como ele nos fez a nós.
11 Então três mil homens de Judá desceram até a fenda da rocha de Etã, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabias tu que os filisteus dominam sobre nós? Por que, pois, nos fizeste isto? E ele lhes disse: Assim como eles me fizeram a mim, eu lhes fiz a eles.
12 E disseram-lhe: Descemos para te amarrar e te entregar nas mãos dos filisteus. Então Sansão lhes disse: Jurai-me que vós mesmos não me acometereis.
13 E eles lhe falaram, dizendo: Não, mas fortemente te amarraremos, e te entregaremos nas mãos deles; porém de maneira nenhuma te mataremos. E amarraram-no com duas cordas novas e fizeram-no subir da rocha.
14 E, vindo ele a Leí, os filisteus lhe saíram ao encontro, jubilando; porém o Espírito do Senhor poderosamente se apossou dele, e as cordas que ele tinha nos braços se tornaram como fios de linho que se queimaram no fogo, e as suas amarraduras se desfizeram das suas mãos.
15 E achou uma queixada fresca de um jumento, e estendeu a sua mão, e tomou-a, e feriu com ela mil homens.
16 Então disse Sansão: Com uma queixada de jumento, montões sobre montões; com uma queixada de jumento feri a mil homens.
17 E aconteceu que, acabando ele de falar, lançou a queixada da sua mão; e chamou aquele lugar Ramate-Leí.
18 E como tivesse grande sede, clamou ao Senhor, e disse: Pela mão do teu servo tu deste esta grande salvação; morrerei eu pois agora de sede, e cairei na mão destes incircuncisos?
19 Então Deus fendeu uma cavidade que estava na queixada; e saiu dela água, e bebeu; e recobrou o seu espírito e reanimou-se; por isso chamou aquele lugar: A fonte do que clama, que está em Leí até ao dia de hoje.
20 E julgou a Israel, nos dias dos filisteus, vinte anos.
1 Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.
2 And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
3 Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.
4 So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;
5 Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.
7 And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
8 And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.
12 Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.
13 And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.
14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.
15 And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.
17 And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.
18 After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
19 Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.
20 And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.