Book 07 : NEVIIM - JUDGES - Chapter 013
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And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in
the sight of HaShem; and HaShem delivered them into the hand of the Philistines
forty years
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not
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And the angel of HaShem appeared unto the woman, and said
unto her: 'Behold now, thou art barren, and hast not borne; but thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor
strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing
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For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto G-d from the
womb; and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying: 'A man of
G-d came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of
G-d, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his
name
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but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear
a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing;
for the child shall be a Nazirite unto G-d from the womb to the day of his
death.
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Then Manoah entreated HaShem, and said: 'Oh, HaShem, I pray
Thee, let the man of G-d whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us
what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
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And G-d hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of
G-d came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband
was not with her
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And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband,
and said unto him: 'Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me
that day.
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And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the
man, and said unto him: 'Art thou the man that spokest unto the woman?' And he
said: 'I am.
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And Manoah said: 'Now when thy word cometh to pass, what
shall be the rule for the child, and what shall be done with him?
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And the angel of HaShem said unto Manoah: 'Of all that I
said unto the woman let her beware
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She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grapevine,
neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that
I commanded her let her observe.
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And Manoah said unto the angel of HaShem: 'I pray thee,
let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.
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And the angel of HaShem said unto Manoah: 'Though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a
burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto HaShem.' For Manoah knew not that he was
the angel of HaShem
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And Manoah said unto the angel of HaShem: 'What is thy
name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?
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And the angel of HaShem said unto him: 'Wherefore askest
thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?
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So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered
it upon the rock unto HaShem; and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his
wife looked on
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For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the angel of HaShem ascended in the flame of the altar;
and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground
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But the angel of HaShem did no more appear to Manoah or to
his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of HaShem
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And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die,
because we have seen G-d.
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But his wife said unto him: 'If HaShem were pleased to
kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our
hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time
have told such things as these.
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And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and
the child grew, and HaShem blessed him
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And the spirit of HaShem began to move him in Mahaneh-dan,
between Zorah and Eshtaol
Book 07 : NEVIIM - JUDGES - Chapter 013
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