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One day the angel of the Lord presented himself to the woman. “Hello!” he greeted[a] her. “Though you are infertile at this time and haven’t borne a child, you’re about to conceive and give birth to a son. 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[b] to God from inside the womb. He will begin to deliver Israel from domination by the Philistines.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:3 Lit. and told
  2. Judges 13:5 The Heb. lacks dedicated