Judges 13:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ He told me, ‘Surprise!—you’re going to conceive and give birth to a son!’ and as for you, ‘Be sure that you don’t drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don’t eat anything unclean,’ ‘because the young man will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from inside the womb’ until the day he dies.”

⁸ So Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, have the man of God whom you sent before^[a] come again so he can instruct us what to do on behalf of the child who is to be born.”

⁹ God listened to Manoah’s request,^[b] and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting out in the pasture. But her husband Manoah wasn’t with her,