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because you will conceive and bear a son. No razor will touch[a] his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God[b] from birth.[c] And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” And the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of an angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him from where he came, and he did not tell me his name. And he said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth[d] until the day of his death.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:5 Literally “will go upon”
  2. Judges 13:5 Literally “consecrated of God” or “devoted of God”
  3. Judges 13:5 Literally “from the womb”
  4. Judges 13:7 Or “the womb”