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¹ And the sons of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

² And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and had not given birth.

³ And the angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, Look now, you are barren, and have not given birth; but you shall become pregnant, and give birth to a son.

⁴ Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

⁵ for, look, you shall become pregnant, and give birth to a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the lad shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very awesome; and I did not ask him from where he was, neither did he tell me his name:

⁷ but he said to me, Look, you shall become pregnant, and give birth to a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing; for the lad shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

⁸ Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray you, let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the lad that shall be born.

⁹ And God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but her husband Manoah wasn't with her.

¹⁰ And the woman hurried, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Look, the man has appeared to me, that came to me the [other] day.

¹¹ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man that spoke to the woman? And he said, I am.

¹² And Manoah said, Now let your words come to pass: what shall be the ordering of the lad, and [how] shall we do to him?

¹³ And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

¹⁴ She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.

¹⁵ And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a young goat for you.

¹⁶ And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I will not eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt-offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

¹⁷ And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that, when your words come to pass, we may honor you?

¹⁸ And the angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

¹⁹ So Manoah took the young goat with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

²⁰ For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

²¹ But the angel of Yahweh did not appear anymore to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

²² And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

²³ But his wife said to him, If Yahweh desired to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

²⁴ And the woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the lad grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

²⁵ And the Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.