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.”

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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

13 Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.”

He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric

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