Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 266

13-2 THE BOOK OF THE PERIOD OF THE ]UDGES. 14--2 IO II I2 years. But there was a remarkable man of Tzamh of the family of Dan, and his name was Manoh, but his wife was barren,—-she was childless. A Messenger of the EvER—L1v1NG, however, appeared to his wife, and Look, now, you barren and childless woman! you shall con- ceive and bear a son! But guard yourself, and drink neither wine nor beer, and eat no grapes; for you shall conceive and bear a s0u,·upon whose head no razor shall go; for the youth shall be a Nazarite to GOD from his birth, and he shall be strong and save Israel from the hand of the Phi1istiues.’ The woman therefore went and

A man from Gob has come to me, and his appear- ance was like a Messenger of GOD, very bright, but I did not ask him if he was so,—-·and he did not tell me his name, but he said to me, ‘ See! you shall conceive and bear a son; and you shall not drink wine or beer, nor eat any grapes, for the youth shall be a Nazarite to GOD from his birth to the day of his death! ’ So Manoh entreated the EVER-

Let the man whom You have sent appear, GOD, to me. Let him come again to us, that we may learn what the youth who is to The Evsn»1.1v1Ne, therefore, listened to the voice of Manoh, and the Messenger of GOD came again to the woman, when she was sitting in the field and Manoh her husband was not with her. But the woman hastened and ran and The man who came the other day to me So Manoh arose and followed his wife and came Are you the man who spoke to this And he replied, ‘·‘ I am. May your

word come true! What does the Evan-L1v1NG decide that the youth And the Messenger of the EVER-

Your wife must abstain from all that I said; from all that comes from the vine. She shall not eat of the vine. She shall not drink wine, and she shall not drink beer. She shall also eat no grapes;-·-she must abstain from all that I have commanded. Messenger of the EVER-L1v1NG, ‘Stay here, and I will present to you a goat’s kid. But the Messenger of the EVER-

If I stay, I will not eat of your bread; but if you make an offering to the (For Manoh did not know he was a Messenger of the Evaxmxvino.) Then Manoh asked the Messenger

What is your name? that I may come to you and bless you ? ’ But the Messenger of the EVER-

Why do you ask my name,·——when it is Wonderful P ’ Then Manoh took a goat’s kid,

and a bread offering, and went up on to the rock to the EvnR~r.1v1z~zo and set the offering apart. And Manoh and his wife watched them. But when the flame went up from the altar to the skies, the Messenger of the Evnx·Lrv1Ne also went up in the iiame of the altar, and Manoh and his wife saw him and they fell upon their faces to the earth. The Mes- senger of the EvER~L1v1NG, however, did not again appear to Manoh or his wife after he had recognised that he was a Messenger of the EVER- LIVING. Manoh consequently said to his

We shall die,—for we have seen a god! If the

EVER-LIVING intended to kill us He would not have received a burnt- 16 18 20 21 offering from our hands, and we should not have seen all this, and He would not have listened to us The woman afterwards bore a son, 24 and called his name Samson} and the lad grew great, and the Evan-Lrvino blessed him, and the Mighty Spirit 25 of the EvER·r.1vmo impelled him to the camp of Dan between Tzarah and Ashthal. (ac. 1141.) §amsmt falls in @¤l¤z init}; at §bilirtinz ®irl smh 1!tt'I1°1‘l2§ ijff. But Samson descended to Thim—

nath, and saw a woman in Thimnath, a Philistine girl; so he returned and told his father and mother, and said, ‘ I have seen a woman in Thimnath, Then Manoh replied to the I 1“'1The Brilliant! in Hebrew.-F. F. 266 14