Judges:13

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* And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord ; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Phylistines forty years . * And there was a man of Saraa , of the family of the kindred of Dan , and his name was Manoe , and his wife was barren , and bore not . * And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman , and said to her , Behold , thou art barren and hast not born ; yet thou shalt conceive a son . * And now be very cautious , and drink no wine nor strong drink , and eat no unclean thing ; * for behold , thou art with child , and shalt bring forth a son ; and there shall come no (note :)Gr . iron (:note ) razor upon his head , for the child shall be a So Vat . i . e ., nazir , but Alex . nearer to reading in Mt 2 ; ult . nazeiraion Nazarite to God from the womb ; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Phylistines . * And the woman went in , and spoke to her husband , saying , A man of God came to me , and his appearance was as of an angel of God , very dreadful ; and I did not ask him whence he (note :)Gr . is (:note ) was , and he did not tell me his name . * And he said to me , Behold , thou art with child , and shalt bring forth a son ; and now drink no wine nor strong drink , and eat no unclean thing ; for the child shall be holy to God from the womb until the day of his death . * And Manoe prayed to the Lord and said , (note :)See Jud strkjv @6:13 , 15 (:note ) I pray thee , O Lord my lord , concerning the man of God whom thou sentest ; let him now come to us once more , and teach us what we shall do to the child about to be born . * And the Lord heard the voice of Manoe , and the angel of God came yet again to the woman ; and she sat in the field , and Manoe her husband was not with her . * And the woman hasted , and ran , and brought word to her husband , and said to him , Behold the man who came in the other day to me has appeared to me . * And Manoe arose and followed his wife , and came to the man , and said to him , Art thou the man that spoke to the woman ? and the angel said , I am . * And Manoe said , Now shall thy word come to pass : what shall be the (note :)Hebrews . jpvm (:note ) ordering of the child , and our dealings with him ? * And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe , Of all things concerning which I spoke to the woman , she shall beware . * She shall eat of nothing that comes of the vine (note :)Gr . of wine (:note ) yielding wine , and let her not drink wine or strong liquor , and let her not eat anything unclean : all things that I have charged her she shall observe . * And Manoe said to the angel of the Lord , Let us detain thee here , and prepare before thee a kid of the goats . * And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe , If thou shouldest detain me , I will not eat of thy bread ; and if thou wouldest offer a whole-burnt-offering , to the Lord thou shalt offer it : for Manoe knew not that he was an angel of the Lord . * And Manoe said to the angel of the Lord , What is thy name , that when thy word shall come to pass , we may glorify thee ? * And the angel of the Lord said to him , Why dost thou thus ask after my name ; whereas it is (note :)See Isa strkjv @9:6 (:note ) wonderful ? * And Manoe took a kid of the goats and its meat-offering , and offered it on the rock to the Lord ; and the angel wrought (note :)According to the Hebrew , a wonderful work ; Alex . reads tw yaumasta poiounti kuriw (:note ) a distinct work , and Manoe and his wife were looking on . * And it came to pass when the flame went up above the altar toward heaven , that the angel of the Lord went up in the flame ; and Manoe and his wife were looking , and they fell upon their face to the earth . * And the angel appeared no more to Manoe and to his wife : then Manoe knew that this was an angel of the Lord . * And Manoe said to his wife , We shall surely die , because we have seen God . * But his wife said to him , If the Lord were pleased to slay us , he would not have received of our hand a whole-burnt-offering and a meat-offering ; and he would not have shewn us all these things , neither would he have caused us to hear all these things (note :)Gr . as the time is (:note ) as at this time . * And the woman brought forth a son , and she called his name Sampson ; and the child grew , and the Lord blessed him . * And the Spirit of the Lord began to go out with him in the camp of Dan , and between Saraa and (note :)Gr . between Esthaol (:note ) Esthaol .

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