< داوران 13 >
قوم اسرائیل بار دیگر نسبت به خداوند گناه ورزیدند. بنابراین خداوند ایشان را مدت چهل سال به دست فلسطینیها گرفتار نمود. | 1 |
And again, the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. And he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
روزی فرشتهٔ خداوند بر همسر مانوح از قبیلهٔ دان که در شهر صرعه زندگی میکرد ظاهر شد. این زن، نازا بود و فرزندی نداشت، اما فرشته به او گفت: «هر چند تا به حال نازا بودهای، ولی بهزودی حامله شده، پسری خواهی زایید. | 2 |
Now there was a certain man from Zorah, and of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah, having a barren wife.
And an Angel of the Lord appeared to her, and he said: “You are barren and without children. But you shall conceive and bear a son.
مواظب باش شراب و مسکرات ننوشی و چیز حرام و ناپاک نخوری. | 4 |
Therefore, take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. Neither shall you eat anything unclean.
موی سر پسرت هرگز نباید تراشیده شود، چون او نذیره بوده، از بدو تولد وقف خدا خواهد بود. او شروع به رهانیدن اسرائیلیها از دست فلسطینیها خواهد کرد.» | 5 |
For you shall conceive and bear a son, whose head no razor shall touch. For he shall be a Nazirite of God, from his infancy and from his mother’s womb. And he shall begin to free Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
آن زن با شتاب پیش شوهرش رفت و به او گفت: «مرد خدایی به من ظاهر شد که صورتش مانند فرشتهٔ خدا مهیب بود. من نام و نشانش را نپرسیدم و او هم اسم خود را به من نگفت. | 6 |
And when she had gone to her husband, she said to him: “A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an Angel, exceedingly terrible. And when I had inquired of him, who he was, and where he was from, and what name he was called, he was not willing to tell me.
اما گفت که من صاحب پسری خواهم شد. او همچنین به من گفت که نباید شراب و مسکرات بنوشم و چیز حرام و ناپاکی بخورم؛ زیرا کودک نذیره بوده، از شکم مادر تا دم مرگ وقف خدا خواهد بود!» | 7 |
But he responded: ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. Take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. And you shall not consume anything unclean. For the boy shall be a Nazirite of God from his infancy, from his mother’s womb, even until the day of his death.’”
آنگاه مانوح چنین دعا کرد: «ای خداوند، خواهش میکنم تو آن مرد خدا را دوباره نزد ما بفرستی تا او به ما یاد دهد با فرزندی که به ما میبخشی چه کنیم.» | 8 |
And so Manoah prayed to the Lord, and he said, “I beg you Lord, that the man of God, whom you sent, may come again, and may teach us what we ought to do about the boy who is to be born.”
خدا دعای وی را اجابت فرمود و فرشتهٔ خدا بار دیگر بر زن او که در صحرا نشسته بود، ظاهر شد. این بار هم شوهرش مانوح نزد وی نبود. | 9 |
And the Lord heeded the prayer of Manoah, and the Angel of the Lord appeared again to his wife, sitting in a field. But her husband Manoah was not with her. And when she had seen the Angel,
پس او دویده، به شوهرش گفت: «آن مردی که به من ظاهر شده بود، باز هم آمده است!» | 10 |
she hurried and ran to her husband. And she reported to him, saying, “Behold, the man appeared to me, whom I had seen before.”
مانوح شتابان همراه همسرش نزد آن مرد آمده، از او پرسید: «آیا تو همان مردی هستی که با زن من صحبت کرده بودی؟» فرشته گفت: «بله.» | 11 |
And he rose up and followed his wife. And going to the man, he said to him, “Are you the one who spoke to my wife?” And he responded, “I am.”
پس مانوح از او پرسید: «بعد از تولد بچه چگونه باید او را بزرگ کنیم؟» | 12 |
And Manoah said to him: “When will your word be fulfilled. What do you want the boy to do? Or from what should he keep himself?”
فرشته جواب داد: «زن تو باید از آنچه که او را منع کردم، پرهیز کند. او نباید از محصول درخت انگور بخورد یا شراب و مسکرات بنوشد. او همچنین نباید چیز حرام و ناپاک بخورد. او باید هر چه به او امر کردهام بجا آورد.» | 13 |
And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah: “Concerning all the things about which I have spoken to your wife, she herself should abstain.
And let her eat nothing from the vine. She may not drink wine or strong drink. She may consume nothing unclean. And let her observe and keep what I have instructed to her.”
آنگاه مانوح به فرشته گفت: «خواهش میکنم همین جا بمان تا بروم و برایت غذایی بیاورم.» | 15 |
And Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “I beg you to agree to my petition, and to let us prepare a kid from the goats.”
فرشته جواب داد: «در اینجا منتظر میمانم، ولی چیزی نمیخورم. اگر میخواهی چیزی بیاوری، هدیهای بیاور که به عنوان قربانی سوختنی به خداوند تقدیم گردد.» (مانوح هنوز نمیدانست که او فرشتهٔ خداوند است.) | 16 |
And the Angel answered him: “Even if you compel me, I will not eat from your bread. But if you are willing to offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord.” And Manoah did not know that he was an Angel of the Lord.
سپس مانوح نام او را پرسیده، گفت: «وقتی هر آنچه گفتهای واقع گردد میخواهیم به مردم بگوییم که چه کسی این پیشگویی را کرده است!» | 17 |
And he said to him, “What is your name, so that, if your word is fulfilled, we may honor you?”
فرشته گفت: «نام مرا نپرس، زیرا نام عجیبی است!» | 18 |
And he answered him, “Why do you ask my name, which is a wonder?”
پس مانوح بزغاله و هدیهای از آرد گرفته، آن را روی مذبحی سنگی به خداوند تقدیم کرد و فرشته عمل عجیبی انجام داد. | 19 |
And so, Manoah took a kid from the goats, and libations, and he placed them upon a rock, as an offering to the Lord, who accomplishes wonders. Then he and his wife watched.
وقتی شعلههای آتش مذبح به سوی آسمان زبانه کشید فرشته در شعلهٔ آتش به آسمان صعود نمود! مانوح و زنش با دیدن این واقعه رو بر زمین نهادند و مانوح فهمید که او فرشتهٔ خداوند بوده است. این آخرین باری بود که آنها او را دیدند. | 20 |
And when the flame of the altar ascended to heaven, the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. And when Manoah and his wife had seen this, they fell prone on the ground.
And the Angel of the Lord no longer appeared to them. And immediately, Manoah understood him to be an Angel of the Lord.
مانوح به همسر خود گفت: «ما خواهیم مرد، زیرا خدا را دیدیم!» | 22 |
And he said to his wife, “We shall certainly die, since we have seen God.”
ولی زنش به او گفت: «اگر خداوند میخواست ما را بکشد هدیه و قربانی ما را قبول نمیکرد، این وعدهٔ عجیب را به ما نمیداد و این کار عجیب را به عمل نمیآورد.» | 23 |
And his wife answered him, “If the Lord wished to kill us, he would not have accepted the holocaust and the libations from our hands. He would not have revealed all these things to us, nor would he have told us the things that are in the future.”
آن زن پسری به دنیا آورد و او را «سامسون» نام نهاد. او رشد کرد و بزرگ شد و خداوند او را برکت داد. | 24 |
And so she bore a son, and she called his name Samson. And the boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
هر وقت که سامسون به لشکرگاه دان که بین صرعه و اِشتائُل قرار داشت میرفت، روح خداوند وی را به غیرت میآورد. | 25 |
And the Spirit of the Lord began to be with him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.