Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Judges 13:7-13 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

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.

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,

10. She made haste and ran to her husband: and told him saying: Behold the man hath appeared to me whom I saw before.

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.

12. And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what wilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?

13. And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I have spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself: