15 “How can you say, ‘I love you,’”(A) she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!”

16 Because she nagged him day after day and pleaded with him until she wore him out,[a] 17 he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut,[b] because I am a Nazirite(B) to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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Footnotes

  1. 16:16 Lit him and he became short to death
  2. 16:17 Lit A razor has not gone up on my head

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