Verse 6
Judges 16:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר דְּלִילָה֙ אֶל שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן הַגִּֽידָ/ה נָּ֣א לִ֔/י בַּ/מֶּ֖ה כֹּחֲ/ךָ֣ גָד֑וֹל וּ/בַ/מֶּ֥ה תֵאָסֵ֖ר לְ/עַנּוֹתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, I pray, what is the source of your great strength, and how could you be bound to be subdued?"
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Chapter 16 Context
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He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.
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And when the Philistines had beard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come in...
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But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts t...
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After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.
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And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his...
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And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it...
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And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords made of sinews not yet dry, but still...
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And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such is he spoke of, with which she...
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Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber expecting the event of the thing, and she c...
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And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least...
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And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak an...
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Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson, there being...
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And Dalila said to him again: How long dost thou deceive me, and tell me lies? Shew me wherewith tho...
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And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking o...
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And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast to...
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And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to re...
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Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I a...
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Then seeing that be had discovered to her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the Philistines,...
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But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber, and s...
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And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I...
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Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains...
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And now his hair began to grow again.
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And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god,...
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And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the same: Our god hath delivered our ad...
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And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson...
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And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch the pillars which support the whole...
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Now the house was full of men and women, and all the princes of the Philistines were there. Moreover...
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But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God (Elohim), remember me, and restore to me now my form...
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And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested, and holding the one with his right ha...
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He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell...
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And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esth...
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