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So be sure that you don’t drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don’t eat anything unclean because—surprise!—you’re going to conceive and give birth to a son! Don’t put a razor to his head, because the young man will be a Nazirite, dedicated[a] to God from inside the womb. He will begin to deliver Israel from domination by the Philistines.”

Then the woman went to tell her husband. She said, “A man of God appeared[b] to me. He looked like what an angel of God would look like—very frightening.[c] I didn’t ask him where he had come from and he didn’t tell me his name.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:5 The Heb. lacks dedicated
  2. Judges 13:6 Or came
  3. Judges 13:6 Or very awe-inspiring