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10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

11 He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

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10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me;(A) you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”

11 He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes(B) that have never been used, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”(C) But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

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