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And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.

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И бы́сть по дне́хъ во дни́ жа́твы пшени́цы, и посѣти́ сампсо́нъ жену́ свою́, несы́й ко́злище от ко́зъ, и рече́: да вни́ду къ женѣ́ моє́й въ ло́жницу. И не даде́ єму́ оте́цъ єя́ вни́ти.

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And her father spoke, saying, I said that thou didst surely hate her, and I gave her to one of thy friends: is not her younger sister better than she? let her be to thee instead of her.

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И рече́ оте́цъ єя́, глаго́ля: рѣ́хъ, я́ко ненави́дя возненави́дѣлъ єси́ ю́, и отда́хъ ю́ єди́ному от друго́въ твои́хъ: не се́ ли сестра́ єя́ ме́ншая добрѣ́йши єя́ є́сть? да бу́детъ тебѣ́ ны́нѣ вмѣ́сто єя́.

³

And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.

³

И рече́ єму́ сампсо́нъ: чи́стъ є́смь ны́нѣ от Филісті́млянъ, я́ко сотворю́ а́зъ съ ни́ми зло́.

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And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.

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И по́йде сампсо́нъ, и я́тъ три́ста лиси́цъ, и взя́ свѣщы́, и связа́ о́шибъ ко о́шибу, и устро́и єди́ну свѣщу́ между́ двѣма́ о́шибома:

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And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.

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и разжже́ о́гнь въ свѣща́хъ, и пусти́ я́ въ ни́вы Филісті́мски: и запали́ ни́вы от гуме́нъ и да́же до кла́совъ просты́хъ и до віногра́да и ма́сличія.

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And the Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.

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И реко́ша иноплеме́нницы: кто́ сотвори́ сія́? И реко́ша: сампсо́нъ зя́ть Ѳамнаѳе́євъ, я́ко взя́ жену́ єго́ и даде́ ю́ єди́ному от друго́въ єго́. И взыдо́ша иноплеме́нницы и сожго́ша ю́ и до́мъ отца́ єя́ огне́мъ.

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And Sampson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.

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И рече́ и́мъ сампсо́нъ: а́ще и сотвори́сте вы́ та́ко є́й, а́зъ не благоизво́лю, но отмще́ніє моє́ єди́ному кому́ждо ва́съ сотворю́, и посе́мъ почі́ю.

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And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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И порази́ и́хъ го́лени до бе́дръ я́звою ве́лією: и сни́де, и всели́ся у водоте́чи въ пеще́рѣ ка́мене ита́ма.

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And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.

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И изыдо́ша Филісті́мляне, и ополчи́шася во Іу́дѣ, и разсѣ́яшася въ лехі́.

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And the men of Juda said, Why are ye come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

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И рече́ и́мъ вся́къ му́жъ Іу́динъ: почто́ пріидо́сте на ны́? И реко́ша иноплеме́нницы: связа́ти сампсо́на пріидо́хомъ и сотвори́ти єму́, я́коже сотвори́ на́мъ.

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And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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И снидо́ша три́ ты́сящы муже́й от Іу́ды къ пеще́рѣ ка́мене ита́ма и реко́ша къ сампсо́ну: не вѣ́си ли, я́ко владѣ́ютъ на́ми Филісті́мляне? и вску́ю сія́ сотвори́лъ єси́ на́мъ? И рече́ и́мъ сампсо́нъ: я́коже ми́ сотвори́ша, та́ко сотвори́хъ и́мъ.

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And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

¹²

И реко́ша єму́: связа́ти тебе́ пріидо́хомъ и преда́ти тя́ въ ру́цѣ иноплеме́нникомъ. И рече́ и́мъ сампсо́нъ: клени́теся мнѣ́, да не убіє́те мене́ вы́.

¹³

And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.

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И реко́ша єму́, глаго́люще: ни́, но то́кмо соу́зомъ свя́жемъ тя́ и предади́мъ тя́ въ ру́ки и́хъ, сме́ртію же не умертви́мъ тебе́. И связа́ша єго́ двѣма́ у́жы но́выми и изведо́ша єго́ от ка́мене того́.

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And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.

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И то́й пріи́де до че́люсти: иноплеме́нницы же воскли́кнуша и теко́ша проти́ву єму́. И сни́де на него́ Ду́хъ Госпо́день, и бы́ша у́жя на мы́шцахъ єго́ я́ко изгре́біє, єгда́ зажже́тся огне́мъ: и разрѣши́шася у́зы єго́ от руку́ єго́:

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And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and smote with it a thousand men.

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и обрѣ́те че́люсть о́слю пове́ржену, и простре́ ру́ку свою́, и взя́ ю́: и изби́ є́ю ты́сящу муже́й.

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And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have smitten a thousand men.

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И рече́ сампсо́нъ: че́люстію о́слею потребля́я потреби́хъ и́хъ, я́ко че́люстію о́слею изби́хъ ты́сящу муже́й.

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And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.

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И бы́сть єгда́ преста́ глаго́ля, и пове́рже че́люсть от руки́ своєя́: и нарече́ мѣ́сто то́є избіє́ніє че́люстноє.

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And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

¹⁸

И возжажда́ зѣло́, и возопи́ ко Го́споду, и рече́: ты́ благоволи́лъ єси́ въ ру́цѣ раба́ твоєго́ спасе́ніє вели́коє сіє́, и ны́нѣ умира́ю жа́ждею, и впаду́ въ ру́ки необрѣ́занныхъ.

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And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called ‘The well of the invoker,’ which is in Lechi, until this day.

¹⁹

И разве́рзе Бо́гъ я́зву на че́люсти, и изы́де изъ нея́ вода́, и пи́: и возврати́ся ду́хъ єго́, и оживе́: сего́ ра́ди прозва́ся и́мя є́й исто́чникъ призыва́ющаго, и́же є́сть въ че́люсти, да́же до дне́ сего́.

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And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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И суди́ Ізра́илю во дни́ Филісті́млянъ два́десять лѣ́тъ.