⁴ They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

⁶ Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

¹⁰ Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.

¹⁵ She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.

¹⁶ It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.

¹⁷ He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

¹⁸ When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

¹⁹ She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

²⁰ She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

²¹ With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

¹⁵ A simple man believes everything, But the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁵ to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.