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Summary
Angel Visits Manoah and his wife

Judges 13:11-20

'''13:11. He rose up, and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said to him: Are you he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.'''

'''13:12. Manoah said to him: When your word shall come to pass, what will you that the child should do? Or from what shall he keep himself?'''

13:13. The angel of the Lord said to Manoah: From all the things I have spoken of to your wife, let her refrain herself:

Let her refrain, etc. . .By the Latin text it is not clear whether this abstinence was prescribed to the mother, or to the child; but the Hebrew (in which the verbs relating thereto are of the feminine gender) determines it to the mother. But then the child also was to refrain from the like things, because he was to be from his infancy a Nazarite of God, ver. 5, that is, one set aside, in a particular manner, and consecrated to God: now the Nazarites by the law were to abstain from all these things.

13:14. Let her eat nothing that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I have commanded her, let her fulfill and observe.

13:15. Manoah said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech you to consent to my request, and let us dress a kid for you.

'''13:16. The angel answered him: If you press me I will not eat of your bread: but if you will offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord. Manoah did not know it was the angel of the Lord.'''

13:17. He said to him: What is your name, that, if your word shall come to pass, we may honor you?

13:18. He answered him: Why do you ask my name, which is a secret?

13:19. Then Manoah took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who does wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.

'''13:20. When the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the same. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;'''