Font Size
Judges 13:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Judges 13:4-6
New Catholic Bible
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.”
6 The woman went and told her husband, “A man of God has visited me. He looked like an angel of God, truly wondrous. I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 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.
