Judges 13:9-25 ▼

9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman, and she was sitting in the field, and Manoah her husband was not with her.

10 And the woman hurried and ran and declared to her husband and said to him, “Behold, the man has appeared to me who came to me the other day.”

11 And Manoah arose and followed after his wife, and he came to the man, and he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And He said, “I am.”

12 And Manoah said, “Now let your words come, what will be the custom of the boy and his work?”

13 And the angel of YHWH said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman, let her take heed.

14 Of anything that comes from the wine vine she may not eat, and wine or strong drink she may not drink, and anything unclean she may not eat. All that I have commanded her she shall keep.”

15 And Manoah said to the angel of YHWH, “Let us detain, please, you, and we will prepare for you a kid of the goats.”

16 And the angel of YHWH said to Manoah, “Even if you detain me, I will not eat of your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, to YHWH you shall offer it.” For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of YHWH.

17 And Manoah said to the angel of YHWH, “What is your name, that when your word comes, we may honor you?”

18 And the angel of YHWH said to him, “Why is this—you do ask My name, and it is incomprehensible?”

19 And Manoah took the kid of the goats, and a grain offering, and he offered it upon the rock to YHWH, and doing wonderously in doing it; and Manoah and his wife were watching.

20 And it came to pass, in the going up of the flame from the altar toward the heavens, that the angel of YHWH ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife saw it, and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21 And the angel of YHWH added not again to appear to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of YHWH.

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

23 And his wife said to him, “If YHWH had delighted to kill us, He would not have accepted from our hands a burnt offering and a grain offering, and He would not have shown us all these things, nor at this time would He have told us as this.”

24 And the woman bore a son, and she called his name Samson. And the child grew, and YHWH blessed him.

25 And the Spirit of YHWH began to move upon him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and between Eshtaol.