Judges 15
1 and to be from day in/on/with day harvest wheat and to reckon: visit Samson [obj] woman: wife his in/on/with kid goat and to say to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife my [the] chamber [to] and not to give: allow him father her to/for to come (in): come
And it comes to pass after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and says, “I go in to my wife, to the inner chamber”; and her father has not permitted him to go in,
2 and to say father her to say to say for to hate to hate her and to give: give(marriage) her to/for companion your not sister her [the] small pleasant from her to be please to/for you underneath: instead her
and her father says, “I certainly said that you surely hated her, and I give her to your companion; is her younger sister not better than she? Please let her be to you instead of her.”
3 and to say to/for them Samson to clear [the] beat from Philistine for to make: do I with them distress: harm
And Samson says of them, “I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing evil with them.”
4 and to go: went Samson and to capture three hundred fox and to take: take torch and to turn tail to(wards) tail and to set: put torch one between two [the] tail in/on/with midst
And Samson goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail to tail, and puts a torch between the two tails, in the midst,
5 and to burn: burn fire in/on/with torch and to send: let go in/on/with standing grain Philistine and to burn: burn from stack and till standing grain and till vineyard olive
and kindles fire in the torches, and sends [them] out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burns [it] from heap even to standing grain, even to vineyard [and] olive-yard.
6 and to say Philistine who? to make: do this and to say Samson son-in-law [the] Timnite for to take: marry [obj] woman: wife his and to give: give(marriage) her to/for companion his and to ascend: rise Philistine and to burn [obj] her and [obj] father her in/on/with fire
And the Philistines say, “Who has done this?” And they say, “Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken away his wife, and gives her to his companion”; and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.
7 and to say to/for them Samson if to make: do [emph?] like/as this that if: except if: except to avenge in/on/with you and after to cease
And Samson says to them, “Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterward I cease!”
8 and to smite [obj] them leg upon thigh wound great: large and to go down and to dwell in/on/with cleft crag Etam
And he strikes them hip and thigh [with] a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 and to ascend: rise Philistine and to camp in/on/with Judah and to leave in/on/with Lehi
And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,
10 and to say man Judah to/for what? to ascend: rise upon us and to say to/for to bind [obj] Samson to ascend: rise to/for to make: do to/for him like/as as which to make: do to/for us
and the men of Judah say, “Why have you come up against us?” And they say, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 and to go down three thousand man from Judah to(wards) cleft crag Etam and to say to/for Samson not to know for to rule in/on/with us Philistine and what? this to make: do to/for us and to say to/for them like/as as which to make: do to/for me so to make: do to/for them
And three thousand men of Judah go down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and say to Samson, “Have you now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? And what [is] this you have done to us?” And he says to them, “As they did to me, so I did to them.”
12 and to say to/for him to/for to bind you to go down to/for to give: give you in/on/with hand: power Philistine and to say to/for them Samson to swear to/for me lest to fall on [emph?] in/on/with me you(m. p.)
And they say to him, “We have come down to bind you—to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson says to them, “Swear to me, lest you fall on me yourselves.”
13 and to say to/for him to/for to say not for to bind to bind you and to give: give you in/on/with hand: power their and to die not to die you and to bind him in/on/with two cord new and to ascend: establish him from [the] crag
And they speak to him, saying, “No, but we certainly bind you, and have given you into their hand, and we certainly do not put you to death”; and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.
14 he/she/it to come (in): come till Lehi (and Philistine *L(abh)*) to shout to/for to encounter: toward him and to rush upon him spirit LORD and to be [the] cord which upon arm his like/as flax which to burn: burn in/on/with fire and to melt bond his from upon hand his
He has come to Lehi—and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him—and the Spirit of YHWH prospers over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are melted from off his hands,
15 and to find jaw donkey fresh and to send: reach hand his and to take: take her and to smite in/on/with her thousand man
and he finds a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and puts forth his hand and takes it, and strikes down one thousand men with it.
16 and to say Samson in/on/with jaw [the] donkey heap heap in/on/with jaw [the] donkey to smite thousand man
And Samson says, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heap on heaps—I have struck down one thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey!”
17 and to be like/as to end: finish he to/for to speak: speak and to throw [the] jaw from hand his and to call: call by to/for place [the] he/she/it Ramath-lehi Ramath-lehi
And it comes to pass, when he finishes speaking, that he casts away the jawbone out of his hand, and calls that place Ramath-Lehi;
18 and to thirst much and to call: call to to(wards) LORD and to say you(m. s.) to give: give in/on/with hand: power servant/slave your [obj] [the] deliverance: victory [the] great: large [the] this and now to die in/on/with thirst and to fall: fall in/on/with hand: power [the] uncircumcised
and he thirsts exceedingly, and calls to YHWH, and says, “You have given this great salvation by the hand of Your servant; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.”
19 and to break up/open God [obj] [the] hollow which in/on/with Lehi and to come out: issue from him water and to drink and to return: return spirit his and to live upon so to call: call by name her En-hakkore En-hakkore which in/on/with Lehi till [the] day: today [the] this
And God cleaves the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinks, and his spirit comes back, and he revives; therefore [one] has called its name “The fountain of him who is calling,” which [is] in Lehi to this day.
20 and to judge [obj] Israel in/on/with day Philistine twenty year
And he judges Israel in the days of the Philistines [for] twenty years.
