H9001–/וַ–v

The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

וַיֹּ֛אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va “and”

Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְכִבַּדְנֽוּךָ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [supplied: the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

וַיִּקַּ֨ח (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”

For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְּל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

וַתֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

וַתֵּ֤לֶד (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּקְרָ֥א (וַ) va. “and”וַיִּגְדַּ֣ל (וַ) va “and”וַֽיְבָרְכֵ֖הוּ (וַֽ) va “and”

The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

וַתָּ֙חֶל֙ (וַ) va. “and”

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

וַיֵּ֥רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥רְא (וַ) va “and”

He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.

וַיַּ֗עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיַּגֵּד֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

וַיֵּ֧רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

וַתִּצְלַ֨ח (וַ) va. “and”וַֽיְשַׁסְּעֵ֙הוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

וַיֵּ֖רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַתִּישַׁ֖ר (וַ) va. “and”

After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

וַיָּ֤שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֣סַר (וַ) va “and”

He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

וַיִּרְדֵּ֣הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֵּ֥ן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאכֵ֑לוּ (וַ) va “and”

His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

וַיֵּ֥רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֨עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

וַיְהִ֖י (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְחוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּהְי֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וּמְצָאתֶ֔ם (וּ) u. “and”וְנָתַתִּ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”

but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.

וּנְתַתֶּ֨ם (וּ) u. “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”

He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [supplied: so]?

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”