{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/judges/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:36:15.551Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Judges","bookSlug":"judges","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Mano'ah; and his wife was barren and had no children."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, |Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Then the woman came and told her husband, |A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; so then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.'|"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then Mano'ah entreated the LORD, and said, |O, LORD, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And God listened to the voice of Mano'ah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Mano'ah her husband was not with her."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, |Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And Mano'ah arose and went after his wife, and came to the man and said to him, |Are you the man who spoke to this woman?| And he said, |I am.|"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And Mano'ah said, |Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy's manner of life, and what is he to do?|"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, |Of all that I said to the woman let her beware."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.|"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, |Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you.|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, |If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD.| (For Mano'ah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, |What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?|"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And the angel of the LORD said to him, |Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?|"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So Mano'ah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar while Mano'ah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Mano'ah and to his wife. Then Mano'ah knew that he was the angel of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And Mano'ah said to his wife, |We shall surely die, for we have seen God.|"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But his wife said to him, |If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.|"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Ma'haneh-dan, between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol."}],"citation":{"inline":"Judges 13 (DBT)","markdown":"[Judges 13](https://primebible.com/dbt/judges/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/judges/13 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}