6Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
7Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
9Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
10Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
11He 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.
12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
