18. The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.”
19. Manoah took the young goat and the grain offering and offered them to the Lord upon a rock. Then he did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife watched.
20. When the flame went up from the altar toward the heavens, the angel of the Lord went up in the flames from the altar. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell face down on the ground.
21. The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.
22. Manoah said to his wife, “We are certainly going to die, for we have seen God.”
23. Yet his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, He would not have taken the burnt offering and grain offering from us. He would not have shown us these things, nor let us hear things such as these at this time.”
24. So the woman bore a son, and she called him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.
25. The Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him at Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.