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Then Samson answered her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then I shall be weak and be as another man.”

And the princes of the Philistines brought her seven green cords that were not dry, and she bound him with them.

And she had men lying in wait with her in the chamber. Then she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he broke the cords, as a thread of yarn is broken when it feels fire. So, his strength was not known.

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