Judges 13:13-14

13:13 The Lord’s messenger told ¹  Manoah, “Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her. ²  13:14 She should not drink ³  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. ⁴  She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”

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¹ tn Or “said to.”

² tn Heb “To everything I said to the woman she should pay attention.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes “to everything,” probably because Manoah’s wife did not tell her husband everything the angel had said to her (cf. vv. 3-5 with v. 7). If she had, Manoah probably would not have been so confused about the child’s mission.

³ tn Heb “eat.”

⁴ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”