And now therefore beware (A)that thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing.

For lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall (B)come on his head: for the child shall be a [a]Nazirite unto God from his birth: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.

¶ Then the wife came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and the fashion of him was like the fashion of the Angel of God exceedingly [b]fearful, but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:5 Meaning, he should be separate from the world, and dedicated to God.
  2. Judges 13:6 If flesh be not able to abide the sight of an Angel, how much less the presence of God?

Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink(A) and that you do not eat anything unclean.(B) You will become pregnant and have a son(C) whose head is never to be touched by a razor(D) because the boy is to be a Nazirite,(E) dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead(F) in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God(G) came to me. He looked like an angel of God,(H) very awesome.(I) I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.

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