1Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. 2A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. 3The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. 4Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean. 5You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.” 6Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. 7But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’ ” 8Then Manoah prayed to the Lord: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.” 9God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. 10The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He’s here! The man who appeared to me the other day!” 11Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?” “I am,” he said. 12So Manoah asked him, “When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy’s life and work?” 13The angel of the Lord answered, “Your wife must do all that I have told her. 14She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.” 15Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.” 16The angel of the Lord replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the Lord.) 17Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?” 18He replied, “Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.⚓ ” 19Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the Lord. And the Lord did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: 20As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. 21When the angel of the Lord did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord. 22“We are doomed to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen God!” 23But his wife answered, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.” 24The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the Lord blessed him, 25and the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Canỡt Sam-sôn
1Cũai I-sarel táq lôih choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ sĩa, chơ án chiau tỗp alới yỗn tỗp Phi-li-tin cỡt sốt pỗn chít cumo. 2Bữn muoi noaq samiang tễ vil Sô-ra, ramứh Manũa tễ tỗp Dan. Lacuoi án cỡt cũai cũt. 3Bữn ranễng Yiang Sursĩ tễ paloŏng toâq sapáh yỗn mansễm ki hữm, cớp pai neq: “Mới la mansễm cũt, ma tỡ bữn dũn noâng mới lứq ỡt mumiaq cớp canỡt muoi lám con samiang. 4Cóq mới ỡt o, chỗi nguaiq blŏ́ng nho tỡ la blŏ́ng canŏ́h; chỗi cha crơng sana tỡ bữn bráh puai rit, 5yuaq mới lứq ỡt mumiaq cớp sễt muoi lám con samiang. Toâq mới sễt, chỗi cứt sóc tễ plỡ con, yuaq noap tễ tangái mới sễt án, la cóq mới chiau loâng án yỗn cỡt cũai Nasa-rit la cũai chiau tỗ sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ loâng. Nỡ‑ra án têq rachuai cũai I-sarel yỗn vớt tễ talang atĩ tỗp Phi-li-tin.” 6Chơ mansễm ki atỡng yỗn cayac án dáng tê neq: “Bữn muoi noaq cũai tễ Yiang Sursĩ toâq ramóh cứq. Roâp riang án ĩn tháng ranễng Yiang Sursĩ, o ễ ngcŏh. Ma cứq khlĩr blớh án toâq tễ léq, cớp án tỡ bữn atỡng ramứh án yỗn cứq dáng. 7Ma án atỡng cứq neq: ‘Mới lứq ỡt mumiaq cớp sễt muoi lám con samiang.’ Án atỡng cứq chỗi nguaiq blŏ́ng nho tỡ la blŏ́ng canŏ́h; chỗi cha crơng sana tỡ bữn bráh puai rit, yuaq carnễn ki cóq cỡt cũai Nasa-rit cớp chiau sang tỗ yỗn Yiang Sursĩ nheq dỡi tamoong án.” 8Chơ Manũa câu sễq tễ Yiang Sursĩ neq: “Ơ Yiang Sursĩ ơi! Sễq anhia ớn ranễng anhia píh loah toâq atỡng hếq cóq táq nŏ́q cớp con samiang ki, toâq canỡt án chơ.” 9Yiang Sursĩ táq ariang Manũa sễq. Chơ ranễng Ncháu toâq loah pỡ mansễm ki, bo mansễm ki tacu tâng sarái. Ma Manũa cayac án tỡ bữn ỡt tâng ntốq ki. 10Ngkíq án tál tháng lúh chu atỡng cayac án neq: “Cũai samiang ca toâq ramóh cứq tễ bo ki, án toâq sapáh sĩa sanua.” 11Yóiq toâp Manũa yuor, chơ puai lacuoi án pỡq ramóh samiang ki, cớp blớh neq: “Mới tỡ, ca táq ntỡng cớp lacuoi cứq?” Samiang ki ta‑ỡi: “Ơq! Pĩeiq.” 12Chơ Manũa pai neq: “Toâq máh ŏ́c mới pai lứq cỡt, con ki cóq táq ntrớu? Cớp án táq puai ntrớu noâq?” 13Ranễng Yiang Sursĩ ta‑ỡi: “Lacuoi mới cóq táq dũ ramứh ĩn cứq khoiq atỡng chơ. 14Án tỡ têq cha palâi nho, dếh tỡ têq nguaiq blŏ́ng nho, blŏ́ng canŏ́h, tỡ la cha sana tỡ bữn bráh puai rit. Cóq án táq puai dũ ramứh ĩn cứq khoiq atỡng án.” 15Ma Manũa tỡ bữn dáng pai samiang ki la ranễng Yiang Sursĩ, chơ án pai neq: “Sễq anhia ỡt nâi voai! Hếq ễ ĩt mbễq táq sana yỗn anhia cha!” 16Ma ranễng ki ta‑ỡi: “Khân cứq ỡt ntốq nâi, cứq tỡ bữn cha sana mới. Ma khân mới ễ táq sana yỗn cứq, yỗn mới bốh crơng ki sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ.” 17Manũa ta‑ỡi: “Ntrớu ramứh anhia? Toâq santoiq anhia atỡng cỡt ŏ́c lứq, hếq ễ sa‑ỡn anhia.” 18Ranễng Yiang Sursĩ blớh án: “Cỗ nŏ́q mới yoc dáng ramứh cứq? Ramứh cứq la salễh lứq.” 19Chơ Manũa ĩt mbễq con cớp racáu chóq tâng prông sang tamáu, cớp án chiau sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ ca táq ranáq salễh. 20Bo pla ũih chỗn tễ prông sang, Manũa cớp lacuoi án hữm ranễng Yiang Sursĩ chỗn chu paloŏng na pla ũih. Bo Manũa cớp lacuoi án hữm, alới pũp mieiq asễng tớt cutễq. 21Ranễng Yiang Sursĩ tỡ bữn toâq sapáh noâng chóq Manũa cớp lacuoi án. Ngkíq alới dáng samoât lứq samiang ki la ranễng Yiang Sursĩ. 22Manũa pai chóq lacuoi án neq: “Hái cóq cuchĩt toâp, yuaq hái khoiq hữm Yiang Sursĩ!” 23Ma lacuoi ta‑ỡi án: “Khân Yiang Sursĩ ễ cachĩt hái, án tỡ bữn roap mŏ crơng hái bốh sang yỗn án; cớp án tỡ bữn sapáh dũ ramứh ki yỗn hái hữm, tỡ la atỡng ŏ́c ki yỗn hái dáng.” 24Chơ mansễm ki sễt muoi lám con samiang; án amứh con ki Sam-sôn. Carnễn samiang nâi toâr achỗn, cớp Yiang Sursĩ satốh ŏ́c bốn puan yỗn án. 25Bo Sam-sôn ỡt tâng cruang tỗp Dan, bân mpứng dĩ bar coah vil Sô-ra cớp vil E-satôl, Raviei Yiang Sursĩ mbỡiq cỡt sốt tâng mứt pahỡm Sam-sôn yỗn án cỡt rêng achỗn.