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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

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And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

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for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

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And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.

אוֹתָ֔ךְ (אוֹתָ֔) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and [supplied: the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

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And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him.

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And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

אוֹתָ֥הּ (אוֹתָ֥) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

אוֹתָ֣הּ (אוֹתָ֣) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

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And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

אוֹת֑וֹ (אוֹת֑) 'o.T “<obj.>”

And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can declare it unto me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;

אוֹתָ֨הּ (אוֹתָ֨) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to impoverish us? is it not [supplied: so]?

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אוֹתָ֛ךְ (אוֹתָ֛) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and smote thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [supplied: of raiment] unto them that declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

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But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אוֹתָ֛הּ (אוֹתָ֛) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

אוֹתָ֥ם (אוֹתָ֥) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

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And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

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But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

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

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And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [supplied: pieces] of silver.

אוֹת֗וֹ (אוֹת֗) 'o.T “<obj.>”

Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

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