Judges 13:7-9
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7 He told me, ‘Surprise!—you’re going to conceive and give birth to a son!’ and as for you, ‘Be sure that you don’t drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don’t eat anything unclean,’ ‘because the young man will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from inside the womb’ until the day he dies.”
8 So Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, have the man of God whom you sent before[a] come again so he can instruct us what to do on behalf of the child who is to be born.”
9 God listened to Manoah’s request,[b] and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting out in the pasture. But her husband Manoah wasn’t with her,
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- Judges 13:8 The Heb. lacks before
- Judges 13:9 Lit. voice
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