These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 13
Tanakh 25 verses
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And the children of again did that which was evil in the sight of ; and delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not.
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- 3 And the of appeared unto the woman, and said unto her: ‘Behold now, thou art barren, and hast not borne; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.
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For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto from the womb; and he shall begin to out of the hand of the Philistines.’
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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying: ‘A man of came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the of , very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his ;
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Judges 13:17-18 Deuteronomy 33:1 1 Samuel 9:6 1 Samuel 2:27 Exodus 3:2 1 Kings 17:18 2 Kings 4:16 Daniel 8:17 Luke 9:29 Judges 13:22 Acts 6:15 Genesis 28:16-17 Daniel 10:5 Joshua 14:6 Exodus 3:6 Luke 1:19 Genesis 32:29 Judges 13:8 Revelation 1:17 Matthew 28:3-4 Daniel 10:11 1 Kings 17:24 2 Kings 4:9 1 Timothy 6:11 -
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but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto from the womb to the day of his death.’
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Then Manoah entreated , and said: ‘Oh, , I pray Thee, let the man of whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.’
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And hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the of came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her.
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And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said unto him: ‘Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me that day.’
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- 11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him: ‘Art thou the man that spokest unto the woman?’ And he said: ‘I am.’
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And Manoah said: ‘Now when thy cometh to pass, what shall be the rule for the child, and what shall be done with him?’
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- 13 And the of said unto Manoah: ‘Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
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She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grapevine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.’
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And Manoah said unto the of : ‘I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.’
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And the of said unto Manoah: ‘Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-, thou must offer it unto .’ For Manoah knew not that he was the of .
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And Manoah said unto the of : ‘What is thy , that when thy words come to pass we may do thee ?’
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And the of said unto him: ‘Wherefore askest thou after my , seeing it is hidden?’
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So Manoah took the kid with the meal-, and offered it upon the rock unto ; and [the ] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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- 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward from off the , that the of ascended in the flame of the ; and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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But the of did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the of .
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And Manoah said unto his wife: ‘We shall surely die, because we have seen .’
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- 23 But his wife said unto him: ‘If were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt- and a meal- at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.’
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And the woman bore a son, and called his ; and the child grew, and blessed him.
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And the of began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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