³⁴ “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

⁸ Then Manoah^(A) prayed to the Lord: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God^(B) you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”

⁹ God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. ¹⁰ The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He’s here! The man who appeared to me^(C) the other day!”

¹¹ Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?”

“I am,” he said.

¹² So Manoah asked him, “When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy’s life and work?”

⁶ “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”^(A)