20. As the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the Messenger of the Lord went up in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they immediately bowed down with their faces touching the ground.
21. The Messenger of the Lord didn’t appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah knew that this had been the Messenger of the Lord.
22. So Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die because we have seen God.”
23. But Manoah’s wife replied, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He would not have let us see or hear all these things just now.”
24. So the woman had a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
25. The Lord’s Spirit began to stir in him while he was at Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.