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Judges 13:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Judges 13:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and childless, but you will conceive and have a son. 4 Make sure you do not drink any wine or strong drink. Do not eat any unclean thing, 5 for you will conceive and have a son. No razor is ever to touch his head, for he will be a Nazirite,[a] one dedicated to God from the womb. He will begin the deliverance of Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.”
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- Judges 13:5 Nazirite: one who was consecrated to God by a vow. Sometimes, like Samson and John the Baptist, the consecration pre-dated their birth. Prohibitions against wine and other vine products (Num 6:3), and against a shaved head (Num 6:5), had serious consequences for Samson later in his life.
