Judges 13:5 meaning and explanation

For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 13:5, Berean Standard Bible

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The angel of the LORD speaks to Manoah's wife, a barren woman from the clan of Dan, announcing a son who will begin Israel's rescue from the Philistines after forty years of oppression. The command that no razor touch his head marks him as a Nazirite, a person set apart to God, here from the womb rather than by later vow.

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