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'For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,

'Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

So when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Oh, my daughter! You have brought me disaster, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back."

And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me; allow me two months, so that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my friends."

Then he said, "Go." So he let her go for two months; and she left with her friends, and wept on the mountains because of her virginity.

that the daughters of Israel went annually to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in the year.

then they would say to him, "Just say, 'Shibboleth.'" But he said, "Sibboleth," for he was not prepared to pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.

Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel for seven years.

Now Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel after him; he judged Israel for ten years.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.

Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

"For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he will begin to save Israel from the hands of the Philistines."

"But he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

Then Manoah pleaded with the LORD and said, "Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again so that he may teach us what we are to do for the boy who is to be born."

Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain you so that we may prepare a young goat for you."

But the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD." For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.

But the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, for it is wonderful?"

For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.

So Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, for we have seen God."