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Judges 13:13-15
New English Translation
Judges 13:13-15
New English Translation
13 The angel of the Lord told[a] Manoah, “Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.[b] 14 She should not drink[c] anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean.[d] She should obey everything I commanded her to do.” 15 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please stay here awhile,[e] so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”[f]
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- Judges 13:13 tn Or “said to.”
- Judges 13:13 tn Heb “To everything I said to the woman she should pay attention.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes “to everything,” probably because Manoah’s wife did not tell her husband everything the angel had said to her (cf. vv. 3-5 with v. 7). If she had, Manoah probably would not have been so confused about the child’s mission.
- Judges 13:14 tn Heb “eat.”
- Judges 13:14 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
- Judges 13:15 tn Heb “Please allow us to detain you.”
- Judges 13:15 tn Heb “so we can prepare before you a young goat of the goats.”
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