Judges 15:4-5

15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals ¹  and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. ²  15:5 He lit the torches ³  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.

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¹ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

² tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

³ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”