13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, 1 so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. 2 13:3 The Lord’s angelic 3 messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You 4 are infertile and childless, 5 but you will conceive and have a son.
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
2 tn Heb “and had not given birth.”
3 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive (also in vv. 6, 9).
4 tn Heb “Look, you.”
5 tn Heb “and have not given birth.”