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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Judges 13 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Judges 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/12.htm" title="Judges 12">◄</a> Judges 13 <a href="../judges/14.htm" title="Judges 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Samson Is Born</h3><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.1" class="v7_13_1">1</span>Once again the Israelites started disobeying the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. So he let the Philistines take control of Israel for 40 years.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.2" class="v7_13_2">2</span>Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was not able to have children, </span><span class="v7_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.3-Judg.13.5" class="v7_13_3">3-5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.13.3-Judg.13.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> but one day an angel from the <span class="nd">Lord</span> appeared to her and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v7_13_3">You have never been able to have any children, but very soon you will be pregnant and have a son. He will belong to God<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.13.3-Judg.13.5!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> from the day he is born, so his hair must never be cut. And even before he is born, you must not drink any wine or beer or eat any food forbidden by God's laws.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v7_13_3">Your son will begin to set Israel free from the Philistines.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.6" class="v7_13_6">6</span>She went to Manoah and said, “A prophet who looked like an angel of God came and talked to me. I was so frightened, that I didn't even ask where he was from. He didn't tell me his name, </span><span class="v7_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.7" class="v7_13_7">7</span>but he did say that I'm going to have a baby boy. I'm not supposed to drink any wine or beer or eat any food forbidden by God's laws. Our son will belong to God for as long as he lives.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.8" class="v7_13_8">8</span>Then Manoah prayed, “Our <span class="nd">Lord</span>, please send that prophet again and let him tell us what to do for the son we are going to have.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.9" class="v7_13_9">9</span>God answered Manoah's prayer, and the angel went back to Manoah's wife while she was resting in the fields. Manoah wasn't there at the time, </span><span class="v7_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.10" class="v7_13_10">10</span>so she found him and said, “That same man is here again! He's the one I saw the other day.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.11" class="v7_13_11">11</span>Manoah went with his wife and asked the man, “Are you the one who spoke to my wife?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_11">“Yes, I am,” he answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.12" class="v7_13_12">12</span>Manoah then asked, “When your promise comes true, what rules must he obey and what will be his work?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.13" class="v7_13_13">13</span>“Your wife must be careful to do everything I told her,” the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s angel answered. </span><span class="v7_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.14" class="v7_13_14">14</span>“She must not eat or drink anything made from grapes. She must not drink wine or beer or eat anything forbidden by God's laws. I told her exactly what to do.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.15" class="v7_13_15">15</span>“Please,” Manoah said, “stay here with us for just a little while, and we'll fix a young goat for you to eat.” </span><span class="v7_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.16" class="v7_13_16">16</span>Manoah didn't realize that he was really talking to one of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s angels.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_16">The angel answered, “I can stay for a little while, although I won't eat any of your food. But if you would like to offer the goat as a sacrifice to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, that would be fine.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.17" class="v7_13_17">17</span>Manoah said, “Tell us your name, so we can honor you after our son is born.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.18" class="v7_13_18">18</span>“No,” the angel replied. “You don't need to know my name. And if you did, you couldn't understand it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.19" class="v7_13_19">19</span>So Manoah took a young goat over to a large rock he had chosen for an altar, and he built a fire on the rock. Then he killed the goat, and offered it with some grain as a sacrifice to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. But then an amazing thing happened. </span><span class="v7_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.20" class="v7_13_20">20</span>The fire blazed up toward the sky, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s angel went up toward heaven in the fire. Manoah and his wife bowed down low when they saw what happened.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_21"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.21" class="v7_13_21">21</span>Although the angel didn't appear to them again, they realized he was one of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s angels. </span><span class="v7_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.22" class="v7_13_22">22</span>Manoah said, “We have seen an angel.<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.13.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Now we're going to die.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.13.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_23"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.23" class="v7_13_23">23</span>“The <span class="nd">Lord</span> isn't going to kill us,” Manoah's wife responded. “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> accepted our sacrifice and grain offering, and he let us see something amazing. Besides, he told us that we're going to have a son.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_13_24"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.24" class="v7_13_24">24</span>Later, Manoah's wife did give birth to a son, and she named him Samson. As the boy grew, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> blessed him. </span><span class="v7_13_25"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.13.25" class="v7_13_25">25</span>Then, while Samson was staying at Dan's Camp<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.13.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol, the Spirit of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> took control of him.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.3-5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">belong to God: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “be a Nazirite of God.” Nazirites were dedicated to God and had to follow special rules to stay that way (see Numbers 6.1,21).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">angel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “god,” which can be used of God or of other supernatural beings.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">We have seen an angel. Now we're going to die: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some people believed that if they saw the <char style="nd">Lord</char> or one of the <char style="nd">Lord</char>'s angels, they would die.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Dan's Camp: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Mahaneh-Dan.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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