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tell me. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Septuagint add "I Pray thee".
with the web. Note the Homoeoteleuton. In the primitive text these words were probably followed by "and fasten them with a pin". For the Septuagint adds "I shall be as another man. And it came to pass that when he was asleep that Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them with the web, and she fastened them with a pin". Ginsburg suggests that some ancient scribe, in copying the first words, "fasten them with a pin", carried his eye back to these last words, and omitted the whole of this clause, which has been preserved in the Septuagint.