Juges 13
1 Les enfants d’Israël firent encore ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh, et Yahweh les livra entre les mains des Philistins, pendant quarante ans.
The Israelites continued to do what was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines to rule them for forty years.
2 Il y avait un homme de Saraa, de la famille des Danites, nommé Manué; sa femme était stérile, et n’avait pas enfanté.
At that time there was a man named Manoah. He was from the tribe of Dan and lived in the town of Zorah. His wife couldn't conceive and had no children.
3 L’Ange de Yahweh apparut à la femme et lui dit: « Voici donc, tu es stérile et sans enfant; mais tu concevras et enfanteras un fils.
The Angel of the Lord appeared to her and told her, “It's true that you couldn't conceive, and have no children, but now you're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.
4 Et maintenant, prends bien garde, ne bois ni vin ni liqueur forte et ne mange rien d’impur,
So then please be careful not to drink any wine or other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean.
5 car tu vas concevoir et enfanter un fils. Le rasoir ne passera pas sur sa tête, car cet enfant sera nazaréen de Dieu, dès le sein de sa mère, et c’est lui qui commencera à délivrer Israël de la main des Philistins. »
You're going to become pregnant and have a son whose head a razor must never touch, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth. He will start the process of saving Israel from the Philistines.”
6 La femme alla dire à son mari: « Un homme de Dieu est venu vers moi; il avait l’aspect d’un ange de Dieu, un aspect redoutable. Je ne lui ai pas demandé d’où il était, et il ne m’a pas fait connaître son nom;
The woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the Angel of God, really frightening. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't did not tell me his name.
7 mais il m’a dit: « Tu vas concevoir et enfanter un fils; et maintenant, ne bois ni vin ni liqueur forte, et ne mange rien d’impur, parce que cet enfant sera nazaréen de Dieu dès le sein de sa mère, jusqu’au jour de sa mort. »
But he told me, ‘You're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean. For the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth until the day of his death.’”
8 Alors Manué invoqua Yahweh et dit: « Je vous prie, Seigneur, que l’homme de Dieu que vous avez envoyé vienne encore vers nous, et qu’il nous enseigne ce que nous devons faire pour l’enfant qui naîtra! »
Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God you sent us return to us to explain what we're supposed to do with the boy who is to be born.”
9 Dieu exauça la prière de Manué, et l’Ange de Dieu vint encore vers la femme; elle était assise dans un champ, et Manué, son mari, n’était pas avec elle.
God responded to Manoah's request, and the Angel of God returned to the woman while she was sitting out in the field. However, her husband Manoah was not with her.
10 La femme courut aussitôt informer son mari et lui dit: « Voici, l’homme qui est venu l’autre jour vers moi m’est apparu. »
So she ran quickly to tell her husband, “Look! The man who appeared to me the other day has come back!”
11 Manué se leva et, suivant sa femme, il alla vers l’homme et lui dit: « Est-ce toi qui as parlé à cette femme? » Il répondit: « C’est moi. »
Manoah got up and went back with his wife, and asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife before?” “Yes I am,” he replied.
12 Manué dit: « Maintenant, quand ta parole s’accomplira, que faudra-t-il observer à l’égard de cet enfant, et qu’y aura-t-il à faire pour lui? »
So Manoah said, “May your promise come true! What shall be decided for the boy, and what is to be his vocation?”
13 L’Ange de Yahweh répondit à Manué: « La femme s’abstiendra de tout ce que je lui ai dit:
“Make sure your wife is careful to follow everything I told her,” the angel of the Lord replied.
14 elle ne mangera rien de ce qui provient de la vigne, elle ne boira ni vin ni liqueur forte, et elle ne mangera rien d’impur: tout ce que je lui ai prescrit, elle l’observera. »
“She must not eat anything that comes from the vine or drink wine or any other alcoholic drink. She must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must follow everything I instructed her to do.”
15 Manué dit à l’Ange de Yahweh: « Permets que nous te retenions et que nous t’apprêtions un chevreau. »
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us keep you here while we prepare a meal of a young goat for you.”
16 L’Ange de Yahweh répondit à Manué: « Quand tu me retiendrais, je ne mangerais pas de ton mets; mais si tu veux préparer un holocauste, à Yahweh, offre-le. » — Manué ne savait pas que c’était l’Ange de Yahweh —
The angel of the Lord replied, “I'll stay, but I won't eat your food. However, if you prepare a burnt offering, you can present it to the Lord.” (Manoah didn't know he was the angel of the Lord.)
17 Et Manué dit à l’Ange de Yahweh: « Quel est ton nom, afin que nous t’honorions, quand ta parole s’accomplira? »
Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so when your promise comes true we may honor you?”
18 L’Ange de Yahweh lui répondit: « Pourquoi m’interroges-tu sur mon nom? Il est Merveilleux. »
“Why do you ask this?” the angel of the Lord responded. “My name is beyond comprehension.”
19 Manué prit le chevreau avec l’oblation et l’offrit à Yahweh sur le rocher, et Yahweh fit un prodige pendant que Manué et sa femme regardaient.
Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and presented them on a rock to the Lord. As Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did something amazing.
20 Comme la flamme montait de dessus l’autel vers le ciel, l’Ange de Yahweh monta dans la flamme de l’autel. A cette vue, Manué et sa femme tombèrent la face contre terre.
As the flame from the altar blazed up into the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Manoah and his wife saw what happened and fell with their faces to the ground.
21 Et l’Ange de Yahweh n’apparut plus à Manué et à sa femme. Alors Manué comprit que c’était l’Ange de Yahweh.
The angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or his wife again, and Manoah realized that he was the angel of the Lord.
22 Et Manué dit à sa femme: « Nous allons mourir, car nous avons vu Dieu. »
“We're definitely going to die,” he told his wife, “for we have seen God!”
23 Sa femme lui répondit: « Si Yahweh voulait nous faire mourir, il n’aurait pas reçu de nos mains l’holocauste et l’oblation, il ne nous aurait pas fait voir tout cela, il ne nous aurait pas fait entendre aujourd’hui de pareilles choses. »
But his wife replied, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn't have shown us all these things, and he wouldn't have come now and announced this to us.”
24 La femme enfanta un fils et lui donna le nom de Samson. L’enfant grandit et Yahweh le bénit;
She gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
25 l’esprit de Yahweh commença à le pousser à Machanêh-Dan, entre Saraa et Esthaol.
The Spirit of the Lord began to prompt him at Mahaneh Dan, a place between Zorah and Eshtaol.
