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23 But his wife replied to him, “If the Lord had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us,[a] he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, and he wouldn’t have permitted us to hear things[b] like this, now would he?”[c]

24 Later on, the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson.[d] The child grew strong and the Lord blessed him. 25 Then the Spirit of the Lord began to rouse him where the tribe of Dan was encamped,[e] between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:23 Lit. from our hands
  2. Judges 13:23 The Heb. lacks things
  3. Judges 13:23 The Heb. lacks would he
  4. Judges 13:24 The Heb. name Samson means Like the sun
  5. Judges 13:25 Or him in Mahaneh-dan