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13.7 from the womb to the day of his death.'

Then Manoah entreated the, and said: 'Oh, , I pray Thee, let the man of God whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.' And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. 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.' 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.' 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?' And the angel of the said unto Manoah: 'Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grape-vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.' And Manoah said unto the angel of the : 'I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.' And the angel of the 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 the .' For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of the. And Manoah said unto the angel of the : 'What is thy name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?' And the angel of the said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?' So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the ; and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on. For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the ascended in the flame of the altar; and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. But the angel of the did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the. And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.' But his wife said unto him: 'If the 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.'

And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the blessed him. And the spirit of the began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said: 'I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.' Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: