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Judges 13:14-16
New English Translation
Judges 13:14-16
New English Translation
14 She should not drink[a] anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean.[b] She should obey everything I commanded her to do.” 15 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please stay here awhile,[c] so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”[d] 16 The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If I stay,[e] I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, you should offer it.” (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)[f]
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- Judges 13:14 tn Heb “eat.”
- Judges 13:14 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
- Judges 13:15 tn Heb “Please allow us to detain you.”
- Judges 13:15 tn Heb “so we can prepare before you a young goat of the goats.”
- Judges 13:16 tn Heb “If you detain me.”
- Judges 13:16 tn The words “he said this” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Manoah should have known from these words that the angel represented the Lord. In the preceding narrative the narrator has informed the reader that the visitor is the angel of the Lord, but Manoah and his wife did not perceive this. In vv. 5 and 7 the angel refers to “God” (אֱלֹהִים, ʾelohim), not the Lord (יְהוַה, yehvah). Manoah’s wife calls the visitor “a man sent from God” and “God’s angel” (v. 6), while Manoah prays to the “Lord” (אֲדוֹנָי, ʾadonay) and calls the visitor “a man sent from God” (v. 8).
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