Juges 13

1 Et les fils d'Israël recommencèrent à faire le mal devant le Seigneur, et le Seigneur les livra pendant quarante années aux mains des Philistins.

The Israelites continued to do what was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines to rule them for forty years.

2 Or, il y avait un homme de Saraa, d'une famille de la tribu de Dan, et il se nommait Manué, et sa femme était stérile, et elle n'avait point enfanté.

At that time there was a man named Manoah. He was from the tribe of Dan and lived in the town of Zorah. His wife couldn't conceive and had no children.

3 Et l'ange du Seigneur apparut à la femme, et il lui dit: Femme stérile, toi qui n'avais point enfanté, voilà que tu concevras un fils.

The Angel of the Lord appeared to her and told her, “It's true that you couldn't conceive, and have no children, but now you're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.

4 Maintenant, garde-toi de boire du vin ou d'autre boisson enivrante, et ne mange rien d'impur.

So then please be careful not to drink any wine or other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean.

5 Voilà que tu as un fruit en tes entrailles, et tu accoucheras d'un fils, et le fer ne passera point sur sa tête, parce que, dès le sein de sa mère, l'enfant sera Nazir de Dieu, et c'est lui qui commencera à délivrer Israël des Philistins.

You're going to become pregnant and have a son whose head a razor must never touch, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth. He will start the process of saving Israel from the Philistines.”

6 La femme rentra et elle dit à son mari: Un homme de Dieu est venu vers moi, et son aspect était, comme l'aspect d'un ange de Dieu, grandement redoutable; je ne lui ai point demandé d'où il est, et il ne m'a point dit son nom.

The woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the Angel of God, really frightening. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't did not tell me his name.

7 Et il m'a dit: Voilà que tu as un fruit en tes entrailles, et tu accoucheras d'un fils; maintenant, ne bois ni vin ni boisson enivrante, et ne mange rien d'impur, parce que l'enfant sera consacré au Seigneur, dès les entrailles de sa mère jusqu'au jour de sa mort.

But he told me, ‘You're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean. For the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth until the day of his death.’”

8 Et Manué pria le Seigneur, et il dit: Regardez-moi, Seigneur Adonaï; l'homme de Dieu que vous avez envoyé, qu'il vienne encore vers nous, et qu'il nous apprenne ce que nous ferons de l'enfant qui doit naître.

Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God you sent us return to us to explain what we're supposed to do with the boy who is to be born.”

9 Dieu exauça le vœu de Manué, et l'ange de Dieu vint encore auprès de la femme; or, elle était assise aux champs, et Manué son mari n'était point avec elle.

God responded to Manoah's request, and the Angel of God returned to the woman while she was sitting out in the field. However, her husband Manoah was not with her.

10 Et la femme, se hâtant, courut l'annoncer à son mari, et elle lui dit: Voilà que l'homme qui est venu vers moi l'autre jour vient de m'apparaître.

So she ran quickly to tell her husband, “Look! The man who appeared to me the other day has come back!”

11 Et Manué se leva, suivit sa femme, arriva près de l'homme, et dit: Es-tu l'homme qui a parlé à ma femme? et l'ange répondit: Je le suis.

Manoah got up and went back with his wife, and asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife before?” “Yes I am,” he replied.

12 Et Manué dit: Maintenant tu vas parler; que sera-t-il décidé concernant l'enfant? que devra-t-il faire?

So Manoah said, “May your promise come true! What shall be decided for the boy, and what is to be his vocation?”

13 Et l'ange du Seigneur dit à Manué: Il s'abstiendra de tout ce que j'ai dit à la femme.

“Make sure your wife is careful to follow everything I told her,” the angel of the Lord replied.

14 Il ne mangera rien de ce qui sort de la vigne; il ne boira ni vin ni boisson enivrante, il ne mangera rien d'impur, il observera tout ce que j'ai prescrit à la femme.

“She must not eat anything that comes from the vine or drink wine or any other alcoholic drink. She must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must follow everything I instructed her to do.”

15 Et Manué dit à l'ange du Seigneur: Laisse-nous te retenir ici, et nous préparerons devant toi un chevreau.

Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us keep you here while we prepare a meal of a young goat for you.”

16 Mais l'ange du Seigneur dit à Manué: Si vous me retenez je ne mangerai pas de tes pains; si tu prépares un holocauste, offre-le au Seigneur. Or, Manué ne savait pas que c'était un ange du Seigneur.

The angel of the Lord replied, “I'll stay, but I won't eat your food. However, if you prepare a burnt offering, you can present it to the Lord.” (Manoah didn't know he was the angel of the Lord.)

17 Et Manué dit à l'ange du Seigneur: Quel est ton nom, afin que nous puissions te glorifier, quand tes paroles seront accomplies?

Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so when your promise comes true we may honor you?”

18 Et l'ange du Seigneur lui répondit: Pourquoi me demandes-tu mon nom, qui est Admirable?

“Why do you ask this?” the angel of the Lord responded. “My name is beyond comprehension.”

19 Alors, Manué prit le chevreau et l'oblation; puis, il les offrit au Seigneur sur une pierre; il le fit en s'écartant des usages, et Manué et sa femme regardèrent.

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and presented them on a rock to the Lord. As Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did something amazing.

20 Et il advint, pendant que la flamme s'élevait de l'autel jusqu'aux cieux, que l'ange du Seigneur monta dans la flamme; Manue et sa femme le virent, et ils tombèrent la face contre terre.

As the flame from the altar blazed up into the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Manoah and his wife saw what happened and fell with their faces to the ground.

21 Et l'ange du Seigneur disparut aux yeux de Manué et de sa femme. Alors, Manué reconnut que c'était un ange du Seigneur.

The angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or his wife again, and Manoah realized that he was the angel of the Lord.

22 Et il dit à sa femme: Nous mourrons de mort, parce que nous avons vu Dieu.

“We're definitely going to die,” he told his wife, “for we have seen God!”

23 Mais sa femme lui répondit: Si le Seigneur avait voulu nous faire périr, il n'eut point pris de nos mains l'holocauste et les oblations; il ne nous eut point révélé ces choses; il ne nous eut point en cette occasion fait entendre ces paroles.

But his wife replied, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn't have shown us all these things, and he wouldn't have come now and announced this to us.”

24 Et la femme accoucha d'un fils qu'elle nomma Samson; l'enfant devint grand, et le Seigneur le bénit.

She gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.

25 Et au camp de Dan, l'Esprit du Seigneur commença à l'accompagner entre Saraa et Esthaol.

The Spirit of the Lord began to prompt him at Mahaneh Dan, a place between Zorah and Eshtaol.