2 A certain man of Zorah,s named Manoah,t from the clan of the Danites,u had a wife who was childless,v unable to give birth. 3 The angel of the Lordw appeared to herx and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.y 4 Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drinkz and that you do not eat anything unclean.a 5 You will become pregnant and have a sonb whose head is never to be touched by a razorc because the boy is to be a Nazirite,d dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the leade in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

6 Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of Godf came to me. He looked like an angel of God,g very awesome.h I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. 7 But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no winei or other fermented drinkj and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.k’ ”

8 Then Manoahl prayed to the Lord: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of Godm you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”

9 God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. 10 The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He’s here! The man who appeared to men the other day!”

11 Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?”

“I am,” he said.