Judges. Manue et Uxor Eius.
Douay-Rheims translation
13:2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose
name was Manue, and his wife was barren.
13:3 And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and
without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.
13:4 Now therefore beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not
any unclean thing.
13:5 Because thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall touch
his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his
mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the
Philistines.
13:6 And when she was come to her husband she said to him: A man of God came
to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him
who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not
tell me.
13:7 But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son: beware
thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child
shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his mother's womb until
the day of his death.
13:8 Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that
the mail of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us what we
ought to do concerning the child that shall be born.
13:9 And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord appeared
again to his wife as she was sitting in the field. But Manue her husband was
not with her. And when she saw the angel,
13:10 She made haste and ran to her husband: and told him saying: Behold the
man hath appeared to me whom I saw before.
13:11 He rose up and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said to him:
Art thou he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.
[...]
13:19 Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them
upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his
wife looked on.
13:20 And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel
of the lord ascended also in the flame. And when Manue and his wife saw this,
they fell flat on the ground.
13:21 And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue
understood that it was an angel of the Lord,
13:22 And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen
God.
13:23 And his wife answered him: If the Lord had a mind to kill us, he would
not have received a holocaust and libations at our hands, neither would he
have shewed us all these things, nor have told us the things that are to come.
13:24 And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew,
and the Lord blessed him.