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rursumque filii Israhel fecerunt malum in conspectu Dominiqui tradidit eos in manus Philisthinorum quadraginta annis

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erat autem vir quidam de Saraa et de stirpe Dan nomineManue habens uxorem sterilem

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cui apparuit angelus Domini et dixit ad eam sterilis es etabsque liberis sed concipies et paries filium

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cave ergo ne vinum bibas ac siceram ne inmundum quicquamcomedas

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quia concipies et paries filium cuius non tanget caputnovacula erit enim nazareus Dei ab infantia sua et ex matrisutero et ipse incipiet liberare Israhel de manu Philisthinorum

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quae cum venisset ad maritum dixit ei vir Dei venit ad mehabens vultum angelicum terribilis nimis quem cum interrogassemquis esset et unde venisset et quo nomine vocaretur noluit mihidicere

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sed hoc respondit ecce concipies et paries filium cave nevinum bibas et siceram et ne aliquo vescaris inmundo erit enimpuer nazareus Dei ab infantia sua et ex utero matris usque addiem mortis suae

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oravit itaque Manue Deum et ait obsecro Domine ut vir Deiquem misisti veniat iterum et doceat nos quid debeamus facerede puero qui nasciturus est

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exaudivitque Dominus precantem Manue et apparuit rursumangelus Domini uxori eius sedenti in agro Manue autem marituseius non erat cum ea quae cum vidisset angelum

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festinavit et cucurrit ad virum suum nuntiavitque eidicens ecce apparuit mihi vir quem ante videram

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qui surrexit et secutus est uxorem suam veniensque advirum dixit ei tu es qui locutus es mulieri et ille responditego sum

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cui Manue quando inquit sermo tuus fuerit expletus quidvis ut faciat puer aut a quo se observare debebit

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dixitque angelus Domini ad Manue ab omnibus quae locutussum uxori tuae abstineat se

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et quicquid ex vinea nascitur non comedat vinum et siceramnon bibat nullo vescatur inmundo et quod ei praecepi impleatatque custodiat

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dixitque Manue ad angelum Domini obsecro te ut adquiescasprecibus meis et faciamus tibi hedum de capris

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cui respondit angelus si me cogis non comedam panes tuossin autem vis holocaustum facere offer illud Domino etnesciebat Manue quod angelus Dei esset

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dixitque ad eum quod est tibi nomen ut si sermo tuusfuerit expletus honoremus te

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cui ille respondit cur quaeris nomen meum quod estmirabile

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tulit itaque Manue hedum de capris et libamenta et posuitsuper petram offerens Domino qui facit mirabilia ipse autem etuxor eius intuebantur

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cumque ascenderet flamma altaris in caelum angelus Dominiin flamma pariter ascendit quod cum vidisset Manue et uxor eiusproni ceciderunt in terram

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et ultra non eis apparuit angelus Domini statimqueintellexit Manue angelum esse Domini

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et dixit ad uxorem suam morte moriemur quia vidimus Deum

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cui respondit mulier si Dominus nos vellet occidere demanibus nostris holocaustum et libamenta non suscepisset necostendisset nobis haec omnia neque ea quae sunt venturadixisset

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peperit itaque filium et vocavit nomen eius Samsoncrevitque puer et benedixit ei Dominus

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coepitque spiritus Domini esse cum eo in castris Dan interSaraa et Esthaol

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013:001
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

013:002
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not 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 on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

013:006
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

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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, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

013:008
Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

013:009
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

013:010
And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

013:011
And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

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And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

013:013
And the angel of the LORD 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 vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

013:015
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

013:016
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

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And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor?

013:018
And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

013:019
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

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For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

013:021
But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.

013:022
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

013:023
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

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And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

013:025
And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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