H9002–/וְ–v

And Manoah said: 'Now when thy word cometh to pass, what shall be the rule for the child, and what shall be done with him?'

וּמַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grapevine, 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”

And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.'

וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה (וְ) ve. “so”

And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.' For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of the LORD.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?'

וְהוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD; and 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 came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD 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 the LORD did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.

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

But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not 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”

And the spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

וּבֵ֥ין (וּ) u. “and”

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 to wife.'

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

Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she

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

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; 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”

And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as one would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

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

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”

And he scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat; but he told them not that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.

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

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

וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'

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

And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle.

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

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife: 'Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire; have ye called us hither to impoverish us?'

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

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said: 'Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not; thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and wilt thou not tell it me?' And he said unto her: 'Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother,

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

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

וּמֶ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

But it came to pass 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 would not suffer him to go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also the oliveyards.

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