1. Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
2. There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of Dan. His name was Manoah. His wife was infertile and had borne no children.
3. The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed, you are infertile and have borne no children, yet you will conceive and bear a son.
4. Now be careful, I pray, that you drink no wine or strong drink and that you do not eat anything ritually unclean.
5. For you will conceive and bear a son. No razor may touch his head, for the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He will begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
6. Then the woman went to her husband and said, “A man of God came to me. He looked like a very fearsome angel of God. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name.