1. And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God’s sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years.
11. Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”He said, “I am.”
12. Manoah said, “So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to tell us about this boy and his work?”
13-14. The angel of God said to Manoah, “Keep in mind everything I told the woman. Eat nothing that comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually unclean foods. She’s to observe everything I commanded her.”