20 And she said, 'The Philistines are upon you, Samson!' And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind, 'I will break away and shake myself free, just as I did before.' For he did not know that the Lord had withdrawn from him.
21 And when the Philistines had seized him, they immediately plucked out his eyes. And they led him, bound in chains, to Gaza. And enclosing him in a prison, they made him work a millstone.
22 And now his hair began to grow back.
23 And the leaders of the Philistines convened as one, so that they might offer great sacrifices to Dagon, their god. And they feasted, saying, 'Our god has delivered our enemy, Samson, into our hands.'
24 Then, too, the people, seeing this, praised their god, and they said the same, 'Our god has delivered our adversary into our hands: the one who destroyed our land and who killed very many.'
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