Liber Iudicum

Iudicum, chapter 13, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 13 Vulgate

   1 Rursumque filii Israel fece runt malum in conspectu Do mini, qui tradidit eos in manus Philisthinorum quadraginta annis.
   2 Erat autem vir quidam de Saraa et de stirpe Dan nomine Manue habens uxorem sterilem.
   3 Cui apparuit angelus Domini et dixit ad eam: "Ecce sterilis es et absque liberis, sed concipies et paries filium.
   4 Cave ergo, ne vinum bibas ac siceram nec immundum quidquam comedas,
   5 quia ecce concipies et paries filium, cuius non tanget caput novacula: erit enim puer nazaraeus Dei ex matris utero et ipse incipiet liberare Israel de manu Philisthinorum"
   6 Quae cum venisset ad maritum, dixit ei: "Vir Dei venit ad me habens aspectum sicut angelus Domini, terribilis nimis. Non interrogavi eum, unde esset, nec ipse nomen suum mihi indicavit.
   7 Et dixit mihi: "Ecce concipies et paries filium; cave, ne vinum bibas et siceram et ne aliquo vescaris immundo: erit enim puer nazaraeus Dei ex utero matris usque ad diem mortis suae""
   8 Oravit itaque Manue Dominum et ait: "Obsecro, Domine, ut vir Dei, quem misisti, veniat iterum et doceat nos, quid debeamus facere de puero, qui nasciturus est"
   9 Exaudivitque Deus precantem Manue, et venit rursum angelus Dei ad mulierem sedentem in agro. Manue autem maritus eius non erat cum ea.
   10 Festinavit ergo et cucurrit ad virum suum nuntiavitque ei dicens: "Ecce apparuit mihi vir, qui illo die venerat ad me"
   11 Qui surrexit et secutus est uxorem suam veniensque ad virum dixit ei: "Tu es, qui locutus es mulieri?" Et ille respondit: "Ego sum"
   12 Cui Manue: "Quando, inquit, sermo tuus fuerit expletus, quid circa puerum observare et facere debemus?"
   13 Dixitque angelus Domini ad Manue: "Ab omnibus, quae locutus sum uxori tuae, abstineat se;
   14 et, quidquid ex vinea nascitur, non comedat, vinum et siceram non bibat, nullo vescatur immundo et, quod ei praecepi, custodiat"
   15 Dixitque Manue ad angelum Domini: "Obsecro, ut retineamus te et faciamus tibi haedum de capris"
   16 Cui respondit angelus Domini: "Si me retines, non comedam panes tuos; sin autem vis holocaustum facere, offer illud Domino" Et nesciebat Manue quod angelus Domini esset.
   17 Dixitque ad eum: "Quod est tibi nomen, ut, si sermo tuus fuerit expletus, honoremus te?"
   18 Cui ille respondit: "Cur quaeris nomen meum, quod est mirabile?"
   19 Tulit itaque Manue haedum de capris et oblationem similae et posuit super petram offerens Domino, qui facit mirabilia; ipse autem et uxor eius intuebantur.
   20 Cumque ascenderet flamma de altari in caelum, angelus Domini in flamma pariter ascendit. Quod cum vidisset Manue et uxor eius, proni ceciderunt in terram;
   21 et ultra non eis apparuit angelus Domini. Statimque intellexit Manue angelum esse Domini
   22 et dixit ad uxorem suam: "Morte moriemur, quia vidimus Deum "
   23 Cui respondit mulier: "Si Dominus nos vellet occidere, de manibus nostris holocaustum et oblationem non suscepisset nec ostendisset nobis haec omnia neque talia dixisset"
   24 Peperit itaque filium et vocavit nomen eius Samson. Crevitque puer, et benedixit ei Dominus.
   25 Coepitque spiritus Domini impellere eum in Castris Dan inter Saraa et Esthaol.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
   2 ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
   3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
   4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
   5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
   6 ¶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
   7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
   8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
   9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
   10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
   11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
   12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
   13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
   14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
   15 ¶ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
   16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
   17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
   18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
   19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
   20 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 it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
   21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
   22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
   23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
   24 ¶ And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
   25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.