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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink
not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any
unclean thing:
05 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.
06 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:
07 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.
08 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.
09 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 shewed
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 honour?
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.
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 shewed us all these things,
nor would as at this time have told us such
things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name
Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed
him.
25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him
at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and
Eshtaol.
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