Judges 16:6-14

⁶ Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, please, where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.” ⁷ Samson 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.” ⁸ Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. ⁹ Now she had an ambush waiting 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. ¹⁰ Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, please, with which you might be bound.” ¹¹ He 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.” ¹² So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread. ¹³ Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”

He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.” ¹⁴ She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.