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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
וימצא לחי חמור טריה וישלח ידו ויקחה ויך בה אלף איש
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vymTSA lKHy KHmvr tryh vySHlKH ydv vyqKHh vyk bh Alp AySH

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
inventamque maxillam id est mandibulam asini quae iacebat arripiens interfecit in ea mille viros

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And he found a new jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Authorized (King James) Version   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
New King James Version   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
21st Century King James Version   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
Darby Bible Translation   
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.
God's Word   
Samson found the jawbone from a donkey that had just died. He picked it up and killed 1,000 men with it.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it.
International Standard Version   
He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it.
NET Bible   
He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
New American Standard Bible   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
New International Version   
Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
New Living Translation   
Then he found the jawbone of a recently killed donkey. He picked it up and killed 1,000 Philistines with it.
Webster's Bible Translation   
And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
The World English Bible   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
EasyEnglish Bible   
He saw a bone from the skull of a donkey that had just died. He picked it up and he used it to kill 1,000 Philistine soldiers.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men.
New Life Version   
Samson found a jawbone of a donkey and took it in his hand. He killed 1,000 men with it.
The Voice Bible   
Grabbing up a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he began fighting them. That day he killed 1,000 Philistines.
Living Bible   
Then he picked up a donkey’s jawbone that was lying on the ground and killed a thousand Philistines with it.
New Catholic Bible   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and he reached out and took it in his hand. He then killed one thousand men with it.
Legacy Standard Bible   
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he sent forth his hand and took it and struck down 1,000 men with it.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men with it.
Christian Standard Bible   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
And he found a still moist jawbone of a donkey and reached out and took it and slew 1,000 men with it.
New Century Version   
Samson found the jawbone of a dead donkey, took it, and killed a thousand men with it!
The Message   
As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him, shouting in triumph. And then the Spirit of God came on him with great power. The ropes on his arms fell apart like flax on fire; the strips of leather slipped off his hands. He spotted a fresh donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it killed the whole company. And Samson said, With a donkey’s jawbone I made heaps of donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I killed an entire company.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Samson found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, and took it. With it he struck down a thousand men.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.
Good News Translation®   
Then he found a jawbone of a donkey that had recently died. He reached down and picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.
Wycliffe Bible   
And when he had found a cheek[bone], that is, the nether cheekbone, of an ass, that there lay, he took it, and killed therewith a thousand men; (And when he had found a jawbone, that is, the lower jawbone, of a donkey, that lay there, he took it, and killed a thousand men with it;)
Contemporary English Version   
Samson glanced around and spotted the jawbone of a donkey. The jawbone had not yet dried out, so it was still hard and heavy. Samson grabbed it and started hitting Philistines—he killed 1,000 of them!
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.
Common English Bible © 2011   
He found a donkey’s fresh jawbone, picked it up, and used it to attack one thousand men.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out his hand and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Coming upon the fresh jawbone of an ass, he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men.
New American Standard Bible   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out with his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
The Expanded Bible   
Samson found the ·jawbone [L fresh jawbone; C not yet decayed] of a ·dead donkey [T ass], took it, and ·killed [L struck down] a thousand men with it!
Tree of Life Version   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
Revised Standard Version   
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.
New International Reader's Version   
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men.
BRG Bible   
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Complete Jewish Bible   
He found a fresh donkey jawbone, took it in his hand, and with it he struck down a thousand men.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And he found a new jawbone of a chamor, and put forth his yad and took it and slaughtered a thousand men therewith.
Names of God Bible   
Samson found the jawbone from a donkey that had just died. He picked it up and killed 1,000 men with it.
Modern English Version   
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and with it struck down a thousand men.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Samson found a jawbone of a dead donkey and killed 1000 Philistine men with it.
International Children’s Bible   
Samson found a jawbone of a donkey that had just died. He took it and killed 1,000 men with it!
Lexham English Bible   
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.
New International Version - UK   
Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.