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So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.”[a] 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.” 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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  1. Judges 16:6 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
  2. Judges 16:7 tn Or “moist.”
  3. Judges 16:7 tn The word refers to a bowstring, probably made from animal tendons. See Ps 11:2; Job 30:11.