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22 Then Manoah told his wife, “We’re going to die for sure, because we’ve seen God!”

23 But his wife replied to him, “If the Lord had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us,[a] he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, and he wouldn’t have permitted us to hear things[b] like this, now would he?”[c]

24 Later on, the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson.[d] The child grew strong and the Lord blessed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:23 Lit. from our hands
  2. Judges 13:23 The Heb. lacks things
  3. Judges 13:23 The Heb. lacks would he
  4. Judges 13:24 The Heb. name Samson means Like the sun