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So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong. How can you be tied up so that someone could torture you?”

Samson told her, “If someone ties me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I will be like any other man.”

The Philistine rulers brought her seven new bowstrings that were not dried out. She tied Samson up 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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