◄ Judges 13:3 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD's angel appeared to her and said, "You have never been able to have children, but you will soon be pregnant and have a son.

New Revised Standard Version
And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are barren, having borne no children, you shall conceive and bear a son.

New American Bible
An angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her: Though you are barren and have had no children, you will conceive and bear a son.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

the angel

Judges 2:1 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:

Judges 6:11,12 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian, . . .

Genesis 16:7-13 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert, . . .

Luke 1:11,28 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. . . .

but thou

Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 18:10 And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

1 Samuel 1:20 And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.

2 Kings 4:16 He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

Luke 1:13,31 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John. . . .

Context
The Birth of Samson
…2Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren. 3And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.4Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.…
Cross References
Luke 1:11
And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

Judges 6:11
And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,

Judges 6:14
And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I have sent thee.

Judges 13:6
And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:

Judges 13:8
Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us what we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born.

Judges 13:15
And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to consent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.

Judges 13:2
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