Freshly pressed or intoxicating wine Freshly pressed or aged wine.¹

footnotes: ¹ This is Targum Yonasan’s translation.

The razor [lit. flinger]. The razor, as it flings off and casts away the hair.

Do not consume anything ritually defiled. Anything prohibited to the Nazirite.²

footnotes: ² Sotah, 9:b. This includes grape extract, in addition to wine. (Rashi, there).

With the boy who will be [lit. who was] born. Who is destined to be born.

Behind his wife. Following her advice.

What regulations must we follow with the boy? How shall we treat him? What should appropriately be done with the boy, what must we do with him?³

footnotes: ³ Targum Yonasan. The question was not what must the boy do, but what must we do with him.

Allow us to detain you as our house guest.

When your instructions reach us. If we are contacted with instructions to fulfill a mission for you, and we know and recognize your name,

We shall honor you by fulfilling the mission.

When it is mystical. It is concealed. It changes constantly,⁴ so that its identity remains unknown on any given day.

footnotes: ⁴ According to the angel’s mission at that particular time. Cf. Rashi to Bereishis, 32:30.

At this time [lit. at the time]. At this time.

He would not have apprised us in this way. He would not have apprised us of these tidings⁵ if we deserved to die.

footnotes: ⁵ Concerning the birth of a son.

Pulsating within him. Visiting him intermittently.