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Judges 16:14-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Judges 16:14-16
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14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web[a] and made them tight with the pin. Then she 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 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me three times now and have not told me what makes your strength so great.”(A) 16 Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death.
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- 16.14 Compare Gk: Heb lacks and make it tight . . . into the web
Judges 16:14-16
New International Version
Judges 16:14-16
New International Version
14 and[a] tightened it with the pin.
Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”(A) He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’(B) when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time(C) you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.(D)” 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.
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- Judges 16:14 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew replied, “I can if you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom.” 14 So she
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