So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and [a]how you can be bound to humble you.” And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh [b]animal tendons that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.” Then the governors of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh [c]animal tendons that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:6 Lit by what
  2. Judges 16:7 I.e., of a butchered animal, that shrink and hold when drying
  3. Judges 16:8 See note v 7

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