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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | And the
children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD
delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. |
| 2 | And
there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was
Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. |
| 3 | And the angel
of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art
barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. |
| 4 |
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat
not any unclean thing: |
| 5 | For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son;
and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God
from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines. |
| 6
| Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man
of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel
of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me
his name: |
| 7
| But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean
thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his
death. |
| 8 |
Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the
man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall
do unto the child that shall be born. |
| 9 | And God hearkened to the voice
of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the
field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. |
| 10 | And the
woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold,
the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. |
| 11 | And
Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him,
Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. |
| 12 |
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child,
and how shall we do unto him? |
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13 | And the angel of the LORD said unto
Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. |
| 14 | She may
not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or
strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her
observe. |
| 15
| And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee,
let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. |
| 16 |
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not
eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it
unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. |
| 17 |
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy
sayings come to pass we may do thee honor? |
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18 | And the angel of the
LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is
secret? |
| 19
| So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it
upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his
wife looked on. |
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20 | For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward
heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of
the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the
ground. |
| 21
| But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah
and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. |
| 22 |
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen
God. |
| 23 |
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill
us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our
hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this
time have told us such things as these. |
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24 | And the woman bare a son,
and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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| 25 | And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan
between Zorah and Eshtaol. |
