Judges 16:7
Good News Translation
Samson answered, "If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else."

Contemporary English Version
Samson answered, "If someone ties me up with seven new bowstrings that have never been dried, it will make me just as weak as anyone else."

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

if they bind

Judges 16:10 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.

1 Samuel 19:17 And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.

1 Samuel 21:2,3 And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. . . .

1 Samuel 27:10 And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of Ceni.

Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.

Proverbs 17:7 Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.

Romans 3:8 And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

green withs, or new cords.

Context
Samson and Delilah
6And 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. 7And 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.8And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;…
Cross References
Judges 16:6
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.

Judges 16:8
And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;

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.

Additional Translations
Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green thongs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men.

And Samson said to her, If they should bind me with seven fresh cords which have not been dried, then should I be weak, and be as another man.

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withs, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

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."

And Samson saith unto her, 'If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.'
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