So Delilah said to Samson, ‘Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.’

Samson answered her, ‘If anyone ties me with seven fresh bow-strings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.’

Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bow-strings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them.

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