14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web.[a] And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

15 And she said to him, (A)“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16 And (B)when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:14 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew lacks and fasten it tight… into the web

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