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Then Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what is thy great strength, and with what thou mightest be bound to overpower thee.

And Samson said to her, If they should bind me with seven fresh cords which have not been dried, then should I be weak, and be as another man.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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So Delilah(A) said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them.

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