Israel, making his inquiry regarding the promised son. What sort of career will he have? or What will be his style and achievement? 14. With MT, where LXX has masculine instead of feminine forms of the verbs. That is, the LXX reflects a tradition which explicitly anticipates that Samson will be subject to the Nazirite rules. MT focuses attention upon the mother. The envoy ignores Manoah’s question (which any member of the audience could answer) and indicates simply that he had meant what he had said