the seven: or, the rest of the seven days
she lay: Judges 16:6, Judges 16:13, Judges 16:16; Genesis 3:6; Job 2:9; Proverbs 7:21; Luke 11:8, Luke 18:4-5
and she told: Proverbs 2:16-17
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Judges 14:17
Judges 14:17
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