Judges 13:15

Judges 13:15
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.

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Genesis 18:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

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Genesis 27:14
So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.

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Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 13:2
Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

Judges 13:4
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

Judges 13:5
For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

Judges 13:6
Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;

Judges 13:7
But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

Judges 13:8
Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

Judges 13:9
And God gave ear to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came to the woman again when she was seated in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 13:10
So the woman, running quickly, gave her husband the news, saying, I have seen the man who came to me the other day.

Judges 13:11
And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and came up to the man and said to him, Are you the man who was talking to this woman? And he said, I am.

Judges 13:12
And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

Judges 13:14
She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.

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Judges 13:18
But the angel of the Lord said to him, Why are you questioning me about my name, seeing that it is a wonder?

Judges 13:19
So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.

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1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

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