FIRST READING* _The birth of Samson is foretold._ *A Reading from the Book of Judges 13:2-7, 24-25*

_🌿Lecture quotidienne du samedi 19 décembre 2020_ 

*FIRST READING* 

_The birth of Samson is foretold._ 

*A Reading from the Book of Judges 13:2-7, 24-25* 

There was a man of Zorah of the tribe of Dan, called Manoah. His wife was barren; she had borne no children.

The Angel of Yahweh appeared to this woman and said to her, 'You are barren and have had no child, but you are going to conceive and give birth to a son.

From now on, take great care. Drink no wine or fermented liquor, and eat nothing unclean.

For you are going to conceive and give birth to a son. No razor is to touch his head, for the boy is to be God's nazirite from his mother's womb; and he will start rescuing Israel from the power of the Philistines.'

The woman then went and told her husband, 'A man of God has just come to me, who looked like the Angel of God, so majestic was he. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

But he said to me, "You are going to conceive and will give birth to a son. From now on, drink no wine or fermented liquor, and eat nothing unclean. For the boy is to be God's nazirite from his mother's womb to his dying day." '

The woman gave birth to a son and called him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him;

and the spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in the Camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol 

The Word of the Lord.