◄ Judges 16:10 ►
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Good News Translation
Delilah told Samson, "Look, you've been making a fool of me and not telling me the truth. Please tell me how someone could tie you up."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies; please tell me how you could be bound.”

Contemporary English Version
"You lied and made me look like a fool," Delilah said. "Now tell me. How can I really tie you up?"

New American Bible
Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies. Now tell me how you may be bound.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.

now tell me

Judges 16:7,13,15-17 And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men. . . .

Proverbs 23:7,8 Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee. . . .

Proverbs 24:28 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Luke 22:48 And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?

Context
Samson and Delilah
…9Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay. 10And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.11And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.…
Cross References
Judges 16:9
Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.

Judges 16:11
And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.

Judges 16:9
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