Judges 13:1-16 And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gives them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gives them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. ² And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name [is] Manoah, his wife [is] barren, and has not borne;" ³ and a messenger of Yahweh appears unto the woman, and said unto her, `Lo, I pray you, you [are] barren, and have not borne; when you have conceived, then you have borne a son. ⁴ And, now, take heed, I pray you, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, ⁵ for, lo, you are conceiving and bearing a son, and a razor does not go up on his head, for a Nazarite to Elohim is the youth from the womb, and he does begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.. ⁶ And the woman comes and speaks to her husband, saying, `A man of Elohim has come unto me, and his appearance [is] as the appearance of a messenger of Elohim, very fearful, and I have not asked him whence he [is], and his name he has not declared to me;" ⁷ and he said to me, Lo, you are pregnant, and bearing a son, and now do not drink wine and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for a Nazarite to Elohim is the youth from the womb till the day of his death.. ⁸ And Manoah makes entreaty unto Yahweh, and said, `O, my Lord, the man of Elohim whom You did send, let him come in, I pray you, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.. ⁹ And Elohim hearkens to the voice of Manoah, and the messenger of Elohim comes again unto the woman, and she [is] sitting in a field, and Manoah her husband is not with her, ¹⁰ and the woman hastes, and runs, and declares to her husband, and said unto him, `Lo, he has appeared unto me--the man who came on [that] day unto me.. ¹¹ And Manoah rises, and goes after his wife, and comes unto the man, and said to him, `Are you the man who spoke unto the woman?' and he said, `I [am].. ¹² And Manoah said, `Now let your words come to pass; what is the custom of the youth--and his work?. ¹³ And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Manoah, `Of all that I said unto the woman let her take heed;" ¹⁴ of anything which comes out from the wine-vine she does not eat, and wine and strong drink she does not drink, and any unclean thing she does not eat; all that I have commanded her she does observe.. ¹⁵ And Manoah said unto the messenger of Yahweh, `Let us detain you, we pray you, and prepare before you a kid of the goats.. ¹⁶ And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Manoah, `If you detain me--I do not eat of your bread; and if you prepare a burnt-offering--to Yahweh you do offer it;' for Manoah has not known that He [is] a messenger of Yahweh.