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          DASV: Judges 13    

1 The Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD and
the LORD handed them over to Philistines for forty years.
2 Now there was a certain man of Zorah, from the tribe of the Dan,
whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, and had no children.
3 The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her,
"Although you are barren, and have had no children, you will
become pregnant and have a son.
4 Now please be careful, do not to drink wine or strong drink
or eat anything unclean,
5 for you will become pregnant and have a son. No razor is
to come on his head for the child will be dedicated as a
Nazirite to God from birth. He is the one who will begin to
rescue Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came
to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't
ask him where he was from, and he didn't even tell me his name.
7 But he told me, 'You will become pregnant, and have a son.
Drink no wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,
for the child will be dedicated as a Nazirite to God from
birth to the day of his death.'"

8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, "O, Lord, please let the man
of God whom you sent come back to us, and teach us how we
should raise the child who is to be born."
9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came
back to the woman as she sat in the field, but her husband
Manoah was not with her.
10 The woman quickly ran and told her husband, "Look, the
man who appeared to me the other day has came back."
11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife, and came to
the man, and asked him, "Are you the man who spoke to
my wife?" He replied, "I am."
12 Then Manoah asked, "Now when your words come true,
what is to be the child's rule of life, and what is
his destiny?"
13 The angel of the LORD answered Manoah, "Let your wife
be careful to do everything I told her.
14 She must not eat of anything that comes from the vine.
She must not drink wine or strong drink, or eat
anything unclean. She must do everything that I have
commanded her."

15 Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please,
stay with us awhile and we will prepare a young goat
for you to eat."
16 But the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Even if I stay,
I will not eat any of your food. But prepare and offer
a burnt offering to the LORD." For Manoah did not
realize that he was the angel of the LORD.
17 Then Manoah asked the angel of the LORD, "What is
your name, so that when your words come true we may
honor you?"
18 But the angel of the LORD answered him, "Why do you
ask about my name, since it is too wonderful?"
19 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering,
and offered it on the rock to the LORD. The angel
performed wonders as Manoah and his wife watched.
20 When the flame went up toward heaven from the altar,
the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar.
Manoah and his wife watched and fell with their
faces to the ground.

21 But the angel of the LORD did not appear again to
Manoah or his wife. Then Manoah realized that he was
the angel of the LORD.
22 Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die,
because we have seen God."
23 But his wife said to him, "If the LORD wanted to
kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering
and grain offering from our hands, or showed us all
these things, or announced such wonderful things
as these."
24 Then the woman gave birth to a son, and called
his name Samson. The child grew and the LORD
blessed him.
25 The Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in
Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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