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1 Ib ntus tom qab, thaum txog lub caij hlais nplej, Xas Xoos rov tuaj xyuas nws poj niam. Nws nqa ib tug tshis tuaj rau nws poj niam. Xas Xoos hais tias : “Kuv xav mus xyuas kuv poj niam nyob hauv nws kem tsev.”
1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”
Tab sis nws yawm txiv tsis kheev. 2 Nws yawm txiv hais tias : “Kuv xav tias koj ntxub nws lawm ces kuv muab nws rau koj tus phooj ywg yuav lawm. Tab sis nws tus niam hluas tsis zoo dua nws lod ? Koj yuav nws ua koj poj niam mas !”
But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. 2 Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 Xas Xoos teb tias : “Nyem no yog kuv tsis tau ua phem rau cov Fis Lis Tis mas kuv lub siab yuav nyob tsis tus !” 4 Ces Xas Xoos mus ntes tau peb caug tus hma los. Nws npaj ib co tsau. Nws muab cov hma tig ko tw los sib npuab, ces nws pav ib teg tsau rau ntawm nruab nrab ob tug hma ko tw. 5 Nws zes taws rau cov tsau, nws tso cov hma mus hauv cov Fis Lis Tis tej teb qoob. Cov nplej twb hlais pav ua tej tes, los cov nplej tseem tsis tau hlais, nws muab hlawv tib si. Nws kuj hlawv lawv cov vaj txiv cawv, txiv ntoo roj huv tib si.
3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.” 4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails. 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Cov Fis Lis Tis nug tias : “Yog leej twg ua li ntawd ?”
6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
Muaj neeg teb tias : “Yog Xas Xoos uas yog tus neeg nyob Tis Nas tus vauv. Vim tus neeg ntawd muab Xas Xoos tus poj niam rau Xas Xoos tus phooj ywg lawm.” Ces cov Fis Lis Tis mus muab Xas Xoos poj niam thiab nws tsev neeg hlawv.
They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Xas Xoos hais rau lawv tias : “Yog nej ua li no mas kuv yuav tsis tso nej tseg li. Kuv yuav ua pauj rau nej tas tso !” 8 Xas Xoos ntaus cov Fis Lis Tis, lawv swb nws loj kawg. Ces Xas Xoos mus nram lub qhov tsua Es Tas. Nws mus nyob ntawd. 9 Cov Fis Lis Tis mus ua yeej nyob Yus Das teb, lawv mus soj ntsuam txog Les His.
7 Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.” 8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock. 9 Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Cov Yus Das hais rau lawv tias : “Vim li cas nej thiaj tuaj ntaus peb ?”
10 The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
Lawb teb tias : “Yog peb tuaj ntes Xas Xoos khi, thiab tuaj ua phem rau nws xws li nws ua rau peb.”
They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 Muaj peb txhiab leej Yus Das mus hais rau Xas Xoos nyob hauv lub qhov tsua Es Tas tias : “Koj tsis paub tias cov Fis Lis Tis yog peb cov tswv lod ? Koj ua dab tsi li ntawd rau peb ?”
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
Xas Xoos teb lawv tias : “Kuv pauj rau lawv raws li lawv ua rau kuv xwb.”
He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Lawv hais rau Xas Xoos tias : “Peb tuaj khi koj cab mus rau cov Fis Lis Tis.”
12 They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”
Xas Xoos hais rau lawv tias : “Nej cog lus rau kuv tias nej yuav tsis tua kuv.”
Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13 Lawv teb tias : “Peb tsis tua ! Peb xav ntes koj mus rau lawv xwb, tab sis peb tsis xav ua kom koj tuag.” Ces lawv muab ob txog hlua tshiab los khi Xas Xoos thiab lawv rub nws hauv qhov tsua los.
13 They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Thaum Xas Xoos los txog Les His, cov Fis Lis Tis qw qw khiav ntsuag qees tuaj tos nws. HUAB TAIS lub tswv yim rwg ntxiag los nyob hauv Xas Xoos. Ob txog hlua khi nws tes cia li tu yam li cov hlua maj kub hnyiab, thiab zoo li yaj tas nyob hauv nws tes. 15 Nws pom ib tug pob txha puab tsaig luj tseem tshiab tshiab. Nws cev tes mus khaws nkaus tus pob txha puab tsaig ntawd ntaus tuag ib txhiab leej neeg.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it. 16 Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.” 17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.†
18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day. 20 He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.