Judges 13

vayyosifu bene yisra'el la'asot hara be'ene Adonai vayyittenem Adonai beyad-pelishtim arba'im shanah

The Israelites again did what was offensive to GOD, and GOD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

vayehi ish ekhad mitsorah mimmishpakhat haddani ushemo manoakh ve'ishto aqarah velo yaladah

There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah. His wife was infertile and had borne no children.

vayyera malakh-Adonai el-ha'isha vayyomer eleha hinneh-na at-aqarah velo yaladt veharit veyaladt ben

An angel of GOD appeared to the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and have borne no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

ve'attah hishameri na ve'al-tishti yayin veshekhar ve'al-tokheli kol-tame

Now be careful not to drink wine or other intoxicant, or to eat anything impure.

ki hinnakh harah veyoladt ben umorah lo-ya'aleh al-rosho ki-nezir elohim yihyeh hanna'ar min-habbaten vehu yakhel lehoshia et-yisra'el miyyad pelishtim

For you are going to conceive and bear a son; let no razor touch his head, for the boy is to be a nazirite to God from the womb on. He shall be the first to deliver Israel from the Philistines.”

vattavo ha'isha vattomer le'ishah lemor ish ha'elohim ba elay umarehu kemareh malakh ha'elohim nora me'od velo she'iltihu e-mizzeh hu ve'et-shemo lo-higgid li

The woman went and told her husband, “An agent of God came to me; he looked like an angel of God, very frightening. I did not ask him where he was from, nor did he tell me his name.

vayyomer li hinnakh harah veyoladt ben ve'attah al-tishti yayin veshekhar ve'al-tokheli kol-tumah ki-nezir elohim yihyeh hanna'ar min-habbeten ad-yom moto

He said to me, ‘You are going to conceive and bear a son. Drink no wine or other intoxicant, and eat nothing impure, for the boy is to be a nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death!’”

vayyetar manoakh el-Adonai vayyomar bi adonay ish ha'elohim asher shalakhta yavo-na od elenu veyorenu mah-nna'aseh lanna'ar hayyullad

Manoah pleaded with GOD. “Oh, my Sovereign!” he said, “please let the agent of God that You sent come to us again, and let him instruct us how to act with the child that is to be born.”

vayyishma ha'elohim beqol manoakh vayyavo malakh ha'elohim od el-ha'isha vehi yoshevet bassadeh umanoakh ishah en immah

God heeded Manoah’s plea, and the angel of God came to the woman again. She was sitting in the field and her husband Manoah was not with her.

vattemaher ha'isha vattarots vattagged le'ishah vattomer elayw hinneh nirah elay ha'ish asher-ba vayyom elay

The woman ran in haste to tell her husband. She said to him, “The man who came to me before has just appeared to me.”

vayyaqom vayyelekh manoakh akhare ishto vayyavo el-ha'ish vayyomer lo ha'attah ha'ish asher-dibbarta el-ha'isha vayyomer ani

Manoah promptly followed his wife. He came to that figure and asked him: “Are you the one who spoke to my wife?” “Yes,” he answered.

vayyomer manoakh attah yavo devarekha mah-yyihyeh mishpat-hanna'ar uma'asehu

Then Manoah said, “May your words soon come true! What rules shall be observed for the boy?”

vayyomer malakh Adonai el-manoakh mikkol asher-amarti el-ha'isha tishamer

The angel of GOD said to Manoah, “The woman must abstain from all the things against which I warned her.

mikkol asher-yetse miggefen hayyayin lo tokhal veyayin veshekhar al-tesht vekhol-tumah al-tokhal kol asher-tsivvitiha tishmor

She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, or drink wine or other intoxicant, or eat anything impure. She must observe all that I commanded her.”

vayyomer manoakh el-malakh Adonai natserah-nna otakh vena'aseh lefanekha gedi izzim

Manoah said to the angel of GOD, “Let us detain you and prepare a kid for you.”

vayyomer malakh Adonai el-manoakh im-tatsereni lo-okhal belakhmekha ve'im-ta'aseh olah la-Adonai ta'alennah ki lo-yada manoakh ki-malakh Adonai hu

But the angel of GOD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I shall not eat your food; and if you present a burnt offering, offer it to GOD.”—For Manoah did not know that he was an angel of GOD.

vayyomer manoakh el-malakh Adonai mi shemekha ki-yavo (dvrykh) [devarekha] vekhibbadnukha

So Manoah said to the angel of GOD, “What is your name? We should like to honor you when your words come true.”

vayyomer lo malakh Adonai lammah zeh tishal lishmi vehu-feliy

The angel said to him, “You must not ask for my name; it is unknowable!”

vayyiqqakh manoakh et-gedi ha'izzim ve'et-hamminkhah vayya'al al-hatsur la-Adonai umafli la'asot umanoakh ve'ishto ro'im

Manoah took the kid and the grain offering and offered them up on the rock to GOD; and a marvelous thing happened while Manoah and his wife looked on.

vayehi va'alot hallahav me'al hammizbeakh hashamaymah vayya'al malakh-Adonai belahav hammizbeakh umanoakh ve'ishto ro'im vayyippelu al-penehem aretsah

As the flames leaped up from the altar toward the sky, the angel of GOD ascended in the flames of the altar, while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they flung themselves on their faces to the ground.—

velo-yasaf od malakh Adonai lehera'oh el-manoakh ve'el-ishto az yada manoakh ki-malakh Adonai hu

The angel of GOD never appeared again to Manoah and his wife.—Manoah then realized that it had been an angel of GOD.

vayyomer manoakh el-ishto mot namut ki elohim ra'inu

And Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen a divine being.”

vattomer lo ishto lu khafets Adonai lahamitenu lo-laqakh miyyadenu olah uminkhah velo heranu et-kol-elleh vekha'et lo hishmi'anu kazot

But his wife said to him, “Had GOD meant to take our lives, our burnt offering and grain offering would not have been accepted, nor would we have been shown all these things—and [God] would not have made such an announcement to us.”

vatteled ha'isha ben vattiqra et-shemo shimshon vayyigdal hanna'ar vayevarekhehu Adonai

The woman bore a son, and she named him Samson. The boy grew up, and GOD blessed him.

vattakhel ruakh Adonai lefa'amo bemakhaneh-dan ben tsorah uven eshta'ol

The spirit of GOD first moved him in the encampment of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.