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 \v 1 Again the Israelite people did evil, and Yahweh saw what they had done. So Yahweh helped the Philistines to conquer them. They ruled over the Israelites for forty years.
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-\v 2 There was a man named Manoah from the family of Dan who lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and so she had not given birth.
+\v 2 There was a man named Manoah from the family of Dan who lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, so she had not given birth.
 
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 \v 3 One day, the angel of Yahweh appeared to Manoah's wife and said to her, "Even though you have not been able to give birth to any children until now, you will soon become pregnant and you will give birth to a son.
-\v 4 From now until he is born, you must not drink any wine or other alcoholic drink, and you must not eat any food that the law says we should not eat.
+\v 4 From now until he is born, you must not drink any wine or other alcoholic drink, and you must not eat any food that the law says you should not eat.
 \v 5 You will become pregnant. After you give birth to your son, no one may ever cut his hair. He will be dedicated to God even before he is born until the day he dies. He will begin the work that will rescue Israel from the power of the Philistines."
 
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 \v 6 The woman ran and told her husband, "A man whom God sent came to me. I was very afraid of him, because he was like an angel from God. I did not ask where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
-\v 7 But he told me, 'You have become pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. Until then, you must not drink any wine or any alcoholic drink, and you must not eat any food that God's law says you are not to eat. Your son will be a Nazirite; that is one who is dedicated to God before he is born and until the day he dies.'"
+\v 7 But he told me, 'You will become pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. Until then, you must not drink any wine or any alcoholic drink, and you must not eat any food that God's law says you are not to eat. Your son will be a Nazirite (that is, one who is dedicated to God) before he is born and until the day he dies.'"
 
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 \v 12 Manoah asked him, "When what you promised occurs and my wife gives birth to a son, what rules will there be for the child, and what work will he do when he grows up?"
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 \v 13 Yahweh's angel replied, "Your wife must obey all the instructions I gave her.
-\v 14 Before the baby is born, she must not eat grapes, drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, or eat anything that the law says we should not eat."
+\v 14 Before the baby is born, she must not eat grapes, drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, or eat anything that the law says you should not eat."
 
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 \v 24 When their son was born, they named him Samson. Yahweh blessed him as he grew up.
-\v 25 While he was in Mahanehdan, which is between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol, Yahweh's Spirit began to control him.
+\v 25 While he was in Mahaneh Dan, which is between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol, Yahweh's Spirit began to control him.
 
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-\v 19 Then Yahweh's Spirit powerfully came on Samson. He went down to the coast at the city of Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and went back to Timnah; then he gave them to the men at the feast. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
+\v 19 Then Yahweh's Spirit powerfully came on Samson. He went down to the coast at the city of Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and went back to Timnah, then he gave them to the men at the feast. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
 \v 20 So his wife's father gave her instead to the man who had been Samson's special friend when he got married.
 
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 \v 5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire from the torches burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and stacked in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees.
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-\v 6 The Philistines asked, "Who did this?" Someone told them, "Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson's best friend at the wedding, and she married him." So the Philistines went to Timnah and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death.
+\v 6 The Philistines asked, "Who did this?" Someone told them, "Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson's best friend at the wedding, and she married him." So the Philistines went to Timnah and got the woman and her father and burned them to death.
 
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 \v 13 They replied, "We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you." So they tied him with two new ropes and led him away from the cave.
 
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-\v 14 When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting triumphantly. But Yahweh's Spirit powerfully came on Samson. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they had been stalks of burned flax, and they fell off his wrists.
+\v 14 When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting triumphantly. But Yahweh's Spirit came powerfully on Samson. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they had been stalks of burned flax, and they fell off his wrists.
 
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 \v 15 Then he saw a donkey's jawbone lying on the ground. It was new, so it was hard. He picked it up and killed about a thousand Philistine men with it.