H9002–/וְ–v

Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [supplied: how] shall we do to him?

וּמַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.

וְיַ֤יִן (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁכָר֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה (וְ) ve. “so”

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.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְהוּא־ (וְ) ve. “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.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַפְלִ֣א (וּ) u. “and”וּמָנ֥וֹחַ (וּ) u. “and”וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “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.

וּמָנ֤וֹחַ (וּ) u. “and”וְאִשְׁתּוֹ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “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.

וּמִנְחָ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָעֵ֕ת (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וּבֵ֥ין (וּ) u. “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.

וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְעַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “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.

וְאִמּ֗וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

וְאָבִ֨יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִמּ֜וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבָעֵ֣ת (וּ) u. “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.

וְאָבִ֥יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִנֵּה֙ (וְ) ve. “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.

וּמְא֖וּמָה (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ (וּ) u. “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.

וְהִנֵּ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּדְבָֽשׁ׃ (וּ) u. “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.

וְאָכֹ֔ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “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;

וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים (וּ) u. “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.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”וְנִשְׁמָעֶֽנָּה׃ (וְ) ve. “so”

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.

וּמֵעַ֖ז (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “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]?

וְיַגֶּד־ (וְ) ve. “so”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְאִמִּ֛י (וּ) u. “and”וְלָ֥ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

וּמֶ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”