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Judges 13:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Judges 13:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Birth of Samson
13 [a]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.
2 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. 3 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.
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- 13.1 The “Samson cycle” (chapters 13–16) is built on the theme of the broken vow; cf. 13.4-5. This gives a religious character to what otherwise has the appearance of profane literature.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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