⁶ So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings.^(A) Afterward they sat down to eat and drink^(B) and got up to indulge in revelry.^(C)

⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(A) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^[a](B)

² who invited them to the sacrifices^(A) to their gods.^(B) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

⁴¹ That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.^{(A) 42} But God turned away from them^(B) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.^(C) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

¹⁰ The inhabitants of the earth^(A) will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,^(B) because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

The Death of Samson

²³ Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon^(A) their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”

²⁴ When the people saw him, they praised their god,^(B) saying,

²⁵ While they were in high spirits,^(D) they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.

When they stood him among the pillars,

¹⁷ When Joshua^(A) heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

¹⁸ Moses replied:

¹⁹ When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf^(B) and the dancing,^(C) his anger burned^(D) and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces^(E) at the foot of the mountain.