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1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in YHWH’s sight; and YHWH delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
3The Angel of YHWH appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless, but you will conceive and bear a son.
4Now therefore please be careful not to drink wine or beer, and don’t eat any unclean thing.
5See! You will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor must come on his head, for the child is to be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He will begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
7but he said to me, ‘See! You will conceive and bear a son. Now do not drink wine or beer. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child will be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
8Then Manoah entreated YHWH, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who will be born.”
9God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
10The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Look, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me.”
11Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”
He said, “I am.”
12Manoah said, “Now when your words come to pass, what is to be the boy’s way of life and work?”
13The Angel of YHWH said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
14She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or beer, or eat any unclean thing. She must observe all that I commanded her.”
15Manoah said to the Angel of YHWH, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
16The Angel of YHWH said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to YHWH.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was the Angel of YHWH.
17Manoah said to the Angel of YHWH, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”
18The Angel of YHWH said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”[#13:18 or, wonderful]
19So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to YHWH. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
20For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, the Angel of YHWH ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21But the Angel of YHWH didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the Angel of YHWH.
22Manoah said to his wife, “We will die-die, because we have seen God!”
23But his wife said to him, “If YHWH were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
24The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and YHWH blessed him.
25The Spirit of YHWH began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.