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13 And Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now, you’ve made a fool out of me and lied to me. Tell me how you can be tied up!”

He responded to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on a loom and pull it tight with a pin, then I’ll become weak. I’ll be like any other person.”[a]

14 So she got him to fall asleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on a loom,[b] and pulled it tight with a pin. Then she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistines are on you!” He woke up from his sleep and pulled loose the pin, the loom, and the fabric.

15 Delilah said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t trust me? Three times now you’ve made a fool out of me and not told me what gives you such great strength!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:13 LXX; MT lacks and pull it… other person.
  2. Judges 16:14 LXX; MT lacks so she got him… on a loom.

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