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Judges 15:2-7 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.

3. And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.

4. And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.

5. And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.

6. Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.

7. But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.

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