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14 Later, Samson went to sleep, so Delilah used the loom to weave the seven braids of hair on his head.[a] Then Delilah fastened the loom to the ground with a tent peg. Again she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistine men are going to capture you!” Samson pulled up the tent peg, the loom, and the shuttle.[b]

15 Then Delilah said to Samson, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you don’t even trust me? You refuse to tell me your secret. This is the third time you made me look foolish. You haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” 16 She kept bothering Samson day after day. He got so tired of her asking him about his secret that he felt like he was going to die.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:14 so Delilah … head This is found in the ancient Greek version but not in the standard Hebrew text.
  2. Judges 16:14 shuttle The tool used to pull the threads back and forth on a loom to make cloth.

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