¹ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD and the LORD 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 bare not. ³ And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and bears not: but you will conceive, and bear a son. ⁴ Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing] ⁵ For, lo, you will conceive, and bear a son; and no razor will come on his head: for the child will be a Nazarite to God from the womb: and he will begin to deliver 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 an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not from where he was, neither told he me his name ⁷ But he said to me, See, you will conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child will be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. ⁸ Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which you did send come again to us, and teach us what we will do to the child that will 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 Manoah her husband [was] not with her. ¹⁰ And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said to him, See, 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 speaks to the woman? And he said , I [am]. ¹² And Manoah said, Now let your words come to pass. How will we order the child, and how will we do to him? ¹³ And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. ¹⁴ She may not eat of any thing 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 the LORD, I pray you, let us detain you, until we will have made ready a kid for you. ¹⁶ And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, even though you detain me, I will not eat of your bread: and if you will offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. ¹⁷ And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your sayings come to pass we may do you honour? ¹⁸ And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is secret ? ¹⁹ So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it on a rock to the LORD: 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 the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. ²¹ But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. ²² And Manoah said to his wife, We will surely die, because we have seen God. ²³ But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these. ²⁴ And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. ²⁵ And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.