Hakim-hakim 15:3-5

15:3 Samson said to them, ¹  “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” ²  15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals ³  and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. ⁴  15:5 He lit the torches ⁵  and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

[15:3]  ¹ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”

[15:3]  ² tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”

[15:4]  ³ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

[15:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

[15:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”