¹And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

¹In sinovi Izraelovi so zopet delali, kar je bilo zlo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, in GOSPOD jih je dal Filistejcem v roko štirideset let.

²And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

²Bil pa je neki mož iz Zore, iz rodovine Danove, ki mu je bilo ime Manoah; in žena njegova je bila nerodovitna in ni rodila.

³And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

³In angel GOSPODOV se prikaže ženi in ji reče: Glej, nerodovitna si in ne rodiš; pa spočneš in porodiš sina.

⁴Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

⁴Sedaj pa varuj se, pravim, da ne piješ vina in močne pijače in ne ješ nič nečistega.

⁵For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁵Kajti glej, spočela boš in rodila sina, ki mu ne sme britev priti na glavo, zakaj deček bode nazirec [T. j. posvečenec] Božji od materinega telesa, in on začne reševati Izraela iz roke Filistejcev.

⁶Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

⁶In žena pride in pove možu svojemu, rekoč: Prišel je mož Božji k meni, in podoba njegova je bila kakor angela Božjega, silno strašna, da ga nisem vprašala, odkod je, pa on mi ni povedal, kako mu je ime;

⁷But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

⁷a dejal mi je: Glej, spočela boš in rodila sina, ne pij torej nič vina, ne močne pijače, in ne jej nič nečistega, zakaj deček bode nazirec Božji od materinega telesa do dne smrti svoje.

⁸Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

⁸Tedaj zaprosi Manoah GOSPODA in reče: O GOSPOD, prosim, daj, da pride mož Božji, ki si ga bil poslal, zopet k nama ter naju pouči, kako naj ravnava z dečkom, ki se bo rodil.

⁹And 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.

⁹In Bog je slišal glas Manoahov: in angel Božji pride zopet k ženi, ko je sedela na polju, a Manoah, mož njen, ni bil pri njej.

¹⁰And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

¹⁰Žena pa hitro teče, in naznani možu svojemu in mu reče: Glej, prikazal se mi je tisti mož, ki je bil prišel k meni ondan.

¹¹And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

¹¹In Manoah vstane in gre za ženo svojo, in pride k možu in mu reče: Ti li si tisti mož, ki si govoril z ženo? Odgovori: Sem.

¹²And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

¹²In reče Manoah: Ko se torej izpolnijo besede tvoje, kaj bodi pravilo za dečka in delo njegovo?

¹³And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

¹³In angel GOSPODOV reče Manoahu: Vsega, kar sem povedal ženi, naj se ona varuje.

¹⁴She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

¹⁴Naj ne uživa ničesar, kar pride iz vinske trte, niti ne pije vina, ne močne pijače in ne je nič nečistega; in vse, kar sem ji zapovedal, naj izpolnjuje.

¹⁵And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

¹⁵In Manoah reče angelu GOSPODOVEMU: Prosim, rada bi te pomudila, da ti pripraviva kozliča.

¹⁶And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

¹⁶Angel GOSPODOV pa reče Manoahu: Ko bi me tudi pomudil, ne bom jedel od tvojega kruha; če pa hočeš pripraviti žgalščino, jo moraš darovati GOSPODU. Manoah namreč ni vedel, da je bil angel GOSPODOV.

¹⁷And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor?

¹⁷In Manoah reče angelu GOSPODOVEMU: Kako ti je ime? da ti izkažemo čast, ko pride, kar si govoril.

¹⁸And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

¹⁸Angel GOSPODOV pa mu odgovori: Čemu pa vprašuješ po mojem imenu, ki je čudovito?

¹⁹So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

¹⁹Tedaj vzame Manoah kozliča z jedilno daritvijo in ga daruje na skali GOSPODU; in on je storil čudež, ko sta Manoah in žena njegova gledala.

²⁰For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

²⁰Zgodi se namreč, ko je ogenj plapolal proti nebu z oltarja, da odide gori angel GOSPODOV v plamenu oltarja, ko sta Manoah in žena njegova gledala; in padla sta na obraz svoj na tla.

²¹But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.

²¹In ni se več prikazal angel GOSPODOV Manoahu in ženi njegovi. Tedaj je spoznal Manoah, da je bil angel GOSPODOV.

²²And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

²²In Manoah reče ženi svoji: Gotovo skoraj umrjeva, ker sva videla Boga.

²³But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

²³Ali žena njegova mu reče: Ko bi GOSPODU ugajalo usmrtiti naju, ne bi bil sprejel žgalne in jedilne daritve iz roke najine, tudi bi nama ne bil pokazal vsega tega, ne v tem času nama dal slišati takih reči!

²⁴And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

²⁴In žena je rodila sina in ga imenovala Samsona. In deček je rastel, in GOSPOD ga je blagoslovil.In duh GOSPODOV ga je začel izpodbadati v Danovem šatorišču, med Zoro in Estaolom.

²⁵And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

²⁵In duh GOSPODOV ga je začel izpodbadati v Danovem šatorišču, med Zoro in Estaolom.