13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have toyed with me and told me lies; tell me [a]how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my [b]hair with the [c]web [d][and fasten it with the pin, then I will be weak like any other man.” 14 So while he slept, Delilah wove the seven locks of his [e]hair with the web]. And she fastened it with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:13 Lit by what
  2. Judges 16:13 Lit head
  3. Judges 16:13 I.e., in weaving, the warp of a loom
  4. Judges 16:13 The passage in brackets is found in LXX but not in any Heb mss
  5. Judges 16:14 Lit head

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