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Judges 16:6-8
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Judges 16:6-8
New English Translation
6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.”[a] 7 Samson said to her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh[b] bowstrings[c] that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.” 8 So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
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- Judges 16:6 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
- Judges 16:7 tn Or “moist.”
- Judges 16:7 tn The word refers to a bowstring, probably made from animal tendons. See Ps 11:2; Job 30:11.
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