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Judges 13:7-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

7. And he said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth until the day of his death.’ ”

8. Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, “Excuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born.”

9. And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and an angel of God came again to the woman; she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.

10. The woman quickly ran and told her husband, and she said to him, “Look! The man who came to me the other day appeared to me.”

11. So Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man that spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.”

12. And Manoah said to him, “Now when your words come true, what will be the boy’s manner of life and work?”

13. And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, “Let the woman be attentive to all that I said.

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