Judges 13

1 and to add: again son: descendant/people Israel to/for to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and to give: give them LORD in/on/with hand: power Philistine forty year

Again the Israeli people did things that Yahweh said were very evil. So Yahweh enabled the people of Philistia to conquer them. They ruled over the Israelis for 40 years.

2 and to be man one from Zorah from family [the] Danite and name his Manoah and woman: wife his barren and not to beget

There was a man named Manoah from the descendants of Dan who lived in Zorah [town]. His wife was unable to become pregnant, so they had no children.

3 and to see: seer messenger: angel LORD to(wards) [the] woman and to say to(wards) her behold please you(f. s.) barren and not to beget and to conceive and to beget son: child

One day, Yahweh appeared to Manoah’s wife in the form of an angel, and said to her, “Even though you have not been able to give birth to any children until now, you will soon become pregnant and give birth to a son.

4 and now to keep: careful please and not to drink wine and strong drink and not to eat all unclean

[From now until he is born], you must not drink any wine or other alcoholic/fermented drink, and you must not eat any food that will make you unacceptable to God.

5 for behold you pregnant and to beget son: child and razor not to ascend: rise upon head his for Nazirite God to be [the] youth from [the] belly: womb and he/she/it to profane/begin: begin to/for to save [obj] Israel from hand: power Philistine

After you give birth to your son, you must never allow his hair to be cut. He must be dedicated to God from the day he is born until the day he dies. He is the one who will rescue [many of] the Israeli people from the people of Philistia.”

6 and to come (in): come [the] woman and to say to/for man: husband her to/for to say man [the] God to come (in): come to(wards) me and appearance his like/as appearance messenger: angel [the] God to fear: revere much and not to ask him where? from this he/she/it and [obj] name his not to tell to/for me

The woman ran and told her husband, “A prophet came to me. He looked awesome, like an angel from God. I did not ask where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

7 and to say to/for me behold you pregnant and to beget son: child and now not to drink wine and strong drink and not to eat all uncleanness for Nazirite God to be [the] youth from [the] belly: womb till day death his

But he told me, ‘You will become pregnant and give birth to a son. Until then, you must not drink any wine or any alcoholic/fermented drink, and you must not eat any food that would make you unacceptable to God. Your son must be dedicated to God from the day he is born until the day he dies.’”

8 and to pray Manoah to(wards) LORD and to say please Lord man [the] God which to send: depart to come (in): come please still to(wards) us and to show us what? to make: do to/for youth [the] to beget

Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh, saying, “O Yahweh, I plead with you, allow that prophet whom you sent to us to come again, and teach us how we should raise the boy who will be born to us.”

9 and to hear: hear [the] God in/on/with voice Manoah and to come (in): come messenger: angel [the] God still to(wards) [the] woman and he/she/it to dwell in/on/with land: country and Manoah man: husband her nothing with her

God did what Manoah asked, and Yahweh again appeared to his wife in the form of an angel, while she was out in the field. But again her husband Manoah was not with her.

10 and to hasten [the] woman and to run: run and to tell to/for man: husband her and to say to(wards) him behold to see: seer to(wards) me [the] man which to come (in): come in/on/with day to(wards) me

So she quickly ran and said to her husband, “The man who appeared to me a few days ago has come back again!”

11 and to arise: rise and to go: follow Manoah after woman: wife his and to come (in): come to(wards) [the] man and to say to/for him you(m. s.) [the] man which to speak: speak to(wards) [the] woman and to say I

Manoah ran back with his wife, and asked, “Are you the man who talked with my wife a few days ago?” He replied, “Yes, I am.”

12 and to say Manoah now to come (in): come word your what? to be justice: custom [the] youth and deed: work his

Manoah asked him, “When what you promised occurs [and my wife gives birth to a son], what rules must he obey, and what work will he do [when he grows up]?”

13 and to say messenger: angel LORD to(wards) Manoah from all which to say to(wards) [the] woman to keep: careful

Yahweh replied, “Your wife must obey all the instructions I gave her.

14 from all which to come out: produce from vine [the] wine not to eat and wine and strong drink not to drink and all uncleanness not to eat all which to command her to keep: obey

[Before the baby is born], she must not eat grapes, or drink wine or any other alcoholic/fermented drink, or eat anything that would make her unacceptable to God.”

15 and to say Manoah to(wards) messenger: angel LORD to restrain please [obj] you and to make: offer to/for face of your kid goat

Then Manoah said, “Please stay here until we can kill and cook a young goat for you.”

16 and to say messenger: angel LORD to(wards) Manoah if to restrain me not to eat in/on/with food your and if to make: offer burnt offering to/for LORD to ascend: offer up her for not to know Manoah for messenger: angel LORD he/she/it

Yahweh replied, “I will stay here, but I will not eat anything. However, you may kill an animal and sacrifice it as a burned offering to Yahweh.” (Manoah did not realize that the [man he thought was an] angel was really Yahweh.)

17 and to say Manoah to(wards) messenger: angel LORD who? name your for to come (in): come (word your *Q(K)*) and to honor: honour you

Then Manoah asked him, “What is your name? When what you have promised happens, we want to honor you.”

18 and to say (to/for him *L(abh)*) messenger: angel LORD to/for what? this to ask to/for name my and he/she/it incomprehensible

Yahweh replied, “(Why do you ask me my name?/You should not ask me my name.) [RHQ] It is (wonderful/it cannot be understood).”

19 and to take: take Manoah [obj] kid [the] goat and [obj] [the] offering and to ascend: offer up upon [the] rock to/for LORD and to wonder to/for to make: do and Manoah and woman: wife his to see: see

Then Manoah killed a young goat and burned it on a rock, along with a grain offering, as a sacrifice to Yahweh. And Yahweh did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched.

20 and to be in/on/with to ascend: rise [the] flame from upon [the] altar [the] heaven [to] and to ascend: rise messenger: angel LORD in/on/with flame [the] altar and Manoah and woman: wife his to see: see and to fall: fall upon face their land: soil [to]

Flames from the altar blazed up toward the sky, and Yahweh ascended in the flames. When Manoah and his wife saw that, they prostrated themselves on the ground.

21 and not to add: again still messenger: angel LORD to/for to see: seer to(wards) Manoah and to(wards) woman: wife his then to know Manoah for messenger: angel LORD he/she/it

Although Yahweh did not appear in the form of an angel to Manoah and his wife again, Manoah realized that the [man they thought was an] angel was really Yahweh.

22 and to say Manoah to(wards) woman: wife his to die to die for God to see: see

So he said, “Now we will die, because we have seen God!”

23 and to say to/for him woman: wife his if to delight in LORD to/for to die us not to take: recieve from hand our burnt offering and offering and not to see: see us [obj] all these and like/as time not to hear: proclaim us like/as this

But his wife said, “No, we will not die, because if Yahweh intended to kill us, he would not have accepted the burned offering and the grain offering. And he would not have appeared to us and told us the wonderful thing that would happen to us, and he would not have performed this miracle.”

24 and to beget [the] woman son: child and to call: call by [obj] name his Samson and to magnify [the] youth and to bless him LORD

When their son was born, they named him Samson. Yahweh blessed him as he grew up.

25 and to profane/begin: begin spirit LORD to/for to trouble him in/on/with Mahaneh-dan Mahaneh-dan between Zorah and between Eshtaol

And while he was in Mahaneh-Dan, which is between Zorah and Eshtaol [towns], Yahweh’s Spirit began to control him.