╩─╟ 16:1 ╘HEN WENT ╙AMSON TO ╟AZA, AND SAW THERE AN HARLOT, AND WENT IN UNTO HER.
╩─╟ 16:2 ┴ND IT WAS TOLD THE ╟AZITES, SAYING, ╙AMSON IS COME HITHER. ┴ND THEY COMPASSED HIM IN, AND LAID WAIT FOR HIM ALL NIGHT IN THE GATE OF THE CITY, AND WERE QUIET ALL THE NIGHT, SAYING, ╔N THE MORNING, WHEN IT IS DAY, WE SHALL KILL HIM.
╩─╟ 16:3 ┴ND ╙AMSON LAY TILL MIDNIGHT, AND AROSE AT MIDNIGHT, AND TOOK THE DOORS OF THE GATE OF THE CITY, AND THE TWO POSTS, AND WENT AWAY WITH THEM, BAR AND ALL, AND PUT THEM UPON HIS SHOULDERS, AND CARRIED THEM UP TO THE TOP OF AN HILL THAT IS BEFORE ╚EBRON.
╩─╟ 16:4 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD, THAT HE LOVED A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF ╙OREK, WHOSE NAME WAS ─ELILAH.
╩─╟ 16:5 ┴ND THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES CAME UP UNTO HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, ┼NTICE HIM, AND SEE WHEREIN HIS GREAT STRENGTH LIETH, AND BY WHAT MEANS WE MAY PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, THAT WE MAY BIND HIM TO AFFLICT HIM; AND WE WILL GIVE THEE EVERY ONE OF US ELEVEN HUNDRED PIECES OF SILVER.
╩─╟ 16:6 ┴ND ─ELILAH SAID TO ╙AMSON, ╘ELL ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, WHEREIN THY GREAT STRENGTH LIETH, AND WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND TO AFFLICT THEE.
╩─╟ 16:7 ┴ND ╙AMSON SAID UNTO HER, ╔F THEY BIND ME WITH SEVEN GREEN WITHS THAT WERE NEVER DRIED, THEN SHALL ╔ BE WEAK, AND BE AS ANOTHER MAN.
╩─╟ 16:8 ╘HEN THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES BROUGHT UP TO HER SEVEN GREEN WITHS WHICH HAD NOT BEEN DRIED, AND SHE BOUND HIM WITH THEM.
╩─╟ 16:9 ╬OW THERE WERE MEN LYING IN WAIT, ABIDING WITH HER IN THE CHAMBER. ┴ND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HE ╨HILISTINES BE UPON THEE, ╙AMSON. ┴ND HE BRAKE THE WITHS, AS A THREAD OF TOW IS BROKEN WHEN IT TOUCHETH THE FIRE. ╙O HIS STRENGTH WAS NOT KNOWN.
╩─╟ 16:10 ┴ND ─ELILAH SAID UNTO ╙AMSON, ┬EHOLD, THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD ME LIES: NOW TELL ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND.
╩─╟ 16:11 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HER, ╔F THEY BIND ME FAST WITH NEW ROPES THAT NEVER WERE OCCUPIED, THEN SHALL ╔ BE WEAK, AND BE AS ANOTHER MAN.
╩─╟ 16:12 ─ELILAH THEREFORE TOOK NEW ROPES, AND BOUND HIM THEREWITH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HE ╨HILISTINES BE UPON THEE, ╙AMSON. ┴ND THERE WERE LIERS IN WAIT ABIDING IN THE CHAMBER. ┴ND HE BRAKE THEM FROM OFF HIS ARMS LIKE A THREAD.
╩─╟ 16:13 ┴ND ─ELILAH SAID UNTO ╙AMSON, ╚ITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD ME LIES: TELL ME WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND. ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HER, ╔F THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB.
╩─╟ 16:14 ┴ND SHE FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HE ╨HILISTINES BE UPON THEE, ╙AMSON. ┴ND HE AWAKED OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND WENT AWAY WITH THE PIN OF THE BEAM, AND WITH THE WEB.
╩─╟ 16:15 ┴ND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, ╚OW CANST THOU SAY, ╔ LOVE THEE, WHEN THINE HEART IS NOT WITH ME? THOU HAST MOCKED ME THESE THREE TIMES, AND HAST NOT TOLD ME WHEREIN THY GREAT STRENGTH LIETH.
╩─╟ 16:16 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SHE PRESSED HIM DAILY WITH HER WORDS, AND URGED HIM, SO THAT HIS SOUL WAS VEXED UNTO DEATH;
╩─╟ 16:17 ╘HAT HE TOLD HER ALL HIS HEART, AND SAID UNTO HER, ╘HERE HATH NOT COME A RAZOR UPON MINE HEAD; FOR ╔ HAVE BEEN A ╬AZARITE UNTO ╟OD FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB: IF ╔ BE SHAVEN, THEN MY STRENGTH WILL GO FROM ME, AND ╔ SHALL BECOME WEAK, AND BE LIKE ANY OTHER MAN.
╩─╟ 16:18 ┴ND WHEN ─ELILAH SAW THAT HE HAD TOLD HER ALL HIS HEART, SHE SENT AND CALLED FOR THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES, SAYING, ├OME UP THIS ONCE, FOR HE HATH SHEWED ME ALL HIS HEART. ╘HEN THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES CAME UP UNTO HER, AND BROUGHT MONEY IN THEIR HAND.
╩─╟ 16:19 ┴ND SHE MADE HIM SLEEP UPON HER KNEES; AND SHE CALLED FOR A MAN, AND SHE CAUSED HIM TO SHAVE OFF THE SEVEN LOCKS OF HIS HEAD; AND SHE BEGAN TO AFFLICT HIM, AND HIS STRENGTH WENT FROM HIM.
╩─╟ 16:20 ┴ND SHE SAID, ╘HE ╨HILISTINES BE UPON THEE, ╙AMSON. ┴ND HE AWOKE OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND SAID, ╔ WILL GO OUT AS AT OTHER TIMES BEFORE, AND SHAKE MYSELF. ┴ND HE WIST NOT THAT THE ╠╧╥─ WAS DEPARTED FROM HIM.
╩─╟ 16:21 ┬UT THE ╨HILISTINES TOOK HIM, AND PUT OUT HIS EYES, AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO ╟AZA, AND BOUND HIM WITH FETTERS OF BRASS; AND HE DID GRIND IN THE PRISON HOUSE.
╩─╟ 16:22 ╚OWBEIT THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD BEGAN TO GROW AGAIN AFTER HE WAS SHAVEN.
╩─╟ 16:23 ╘HEN THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES GATHERED THEM TOGETHER FOR TO OFFER A GREAT SACRIFICE UNTO ─AGON THEIR GOD, AND TO REJOICE: FOR THEY SAID, ╧UR GOD HATH DELIVERED ╙AMSON OUR ENEMY INTO OUR HAND.
╩─╟ 16:24 ┴ND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, THEY PRAISED THEIR GOD: FOR THEY SAID, ╧UR GOD HATH DELIVERED INTO OUR HA DS OUR ENEMY, AND THE DESTROYER OF OUR COUNTRY, WHICH SLEW MANY OF US.
╩─╟ 16:25 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEIR HEARTS WERE MERRY, THAT THEY SAID, ├ALL FOR ╙AMSON, THAT HE MAY MAKE US SPORT. ┴ND THEY CALLED FOR ╙AMSON OUT OF THE PRISON HOUSE; AND HE MADE THEM SPORT: AND THEY SET HIM BETWEEN THE PILLARS.
╩─╟ 16:26 ┴ND ╙AMSON SAID UNTO THE LAD THAT HELD HIM BY THE HAND, ╙UFFER ME THAT ╔ MAY FEEL THE PILLARS WHEREUPON THE HOUSE STANDETH, THAT ╔ MAY LEAN UPON THEM.
╩─╟ 16:27 ╬OW THE HOUSE WAS FULL OF MEN AND WOMEN; AND ALL THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES WERE THERE; AND THERE WERE UPON THE ROOF ABOUT THREE THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN, THAT BEHELD WHILE ╙AMSON MADE SPORT.
╩─╟ 16:28 ┴ND ╙AMSON CALLED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, AND SAID, ╧ ╠ORD ╟OD, REMEMBER ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, AND STRENGTHEN ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, ONLY THIS ONCE, ╧ ╟OD, THAT ╔ MAY BE AT ONCE AVENGED OF THE ╨HILISTINES FOR MY TWO EYES.
╩─╟ 16:29 ┴ND ╙AMSON TOOK HOLD OF THE TWO MIDDLE PILLARS UPON WHICH THE HOUSE STOOD, AND ON WHICH IT WAS BORNE UP, OF THE ONE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, AND OF THE OTHER WITH HIS LEFT.
╩─╟ 16:30 ┴ND ╙AMSON SAID, ╠ET ME DIE WITH THE ╨HILISTINES. ┴ND HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS MIGHT; AND THE HOUSE FELL UPON THE LORDS, AND UPON ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN. ╙O THE DEAD WHICH HE SLEW AT HIS DEATH WERE MORE THAN THEY WHICH HE SLEW IN HIS LIFE.
╩─╟ 16:31 ╘HEN HIS BRETHREN AND ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER CAME DOWN, AND TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UP, AND BURIED HIM BETWEEN ┌ORAH AND ┼SHTAOL IN THE BURYINGPLACE OF ═ANOAH HIS FATHER. ┴ND HE JUDGED ╔SRAEL TWENTY YEARS.
