Look, you will conceive and have a son.<n id="1" /> You must never cut his hair,<n id="2" /> for the child will be dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power<n id="4" /> of the Philistines.&#8221;p>

He said to me, &#8216;Look, you will conceive and have a son.<n id="1" /> So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.<n id="2" /> For the child will be dedicated<n id="3" /> to God from birth till the day he dies.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Finally he told her his secret.<n id="1" /> He said to her, &#8220;My hair has never been cut,<n id="2" /> for I have been dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from the time I was conceived.<n id="4" /> If my head<n id="5" /> were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.&#8221;