4. Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:
5. for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
6. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
7. but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
8. Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”
9. God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field, but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
10. The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”
11. Manoah arose, and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”He said, “I am.”
12. Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
13. the Lord’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
14. She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
15. Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
16. the Lord’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was the Lord’s angel.
17. Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”