Judges 16:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.

⁸ And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such is he spoke of, with which she bound him;

⁹ Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength Jay.