Judges 16:12-14
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12 So Delilah took some new ropes and she tied Samson up with them. Some Philistine men were hiding in the room, as they did before. Then she shouted, ‘Samson, the Philistines are here!’ But he broke the ropes off his arms, as if they were thin string.
13 Then Delilah said to Samson, ‘You have deceived me again as if I was a fool. Now you must tell me the truth. Tell me how someone can make you weak.’
Samson replied, ‘You see that my long hair is tied in seven tails. You must tie them into the cloth that is on the loom. Fix them there very strongly. If you do that, I will become weak, like other men.’ 14 Delilah did this while Samson was asleep. She took the seven tails of his hair and she tied them into the cloth on the loom. She fixed them with a strong peg. Then she shouted, ‘Samson, the Philistines are here!’ He woke up and he pulled out the peg. He tore his hair away from the cloth on the loom so that he was free.[a]
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- 16:14 Because Samson was a Nazirite, his hair was very long. It was tied together in seven pieces, or tails. Delilah had a loom that she used to make cloth. There was a piece of cloth on the loom that she had not finished making. She tied Samson's hair into the loom, as if she was using it to make the cloth. The peg was part of the loom.
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