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1 The Israelites again did evil in the LORD's sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years. 2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. 3 The LORD's angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, |You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son. 4 Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 5 Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines.| Judges 13:1-5, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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