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.

[15:4]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

[15:4]  ² tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

[15:5]  ³ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”