And Delilah said to Samson, Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.

Delilah said to Samson, Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you may be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom;

And it came to pass, when she had pressed upon him daily with her words and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!

With great persuasion she influences him; with her seductive lips she moves him.

I say to you, Though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, that she not weary me by her continual coming.

to deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

who forsakes the guide of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God.