19. So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
20. For when the flame went up towards the sky from off the altar, the Lord’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21. But the Lord’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s angel.
22. Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
23. But his wife said to him, “If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
24. The woman bore a son, and named him Samson. The child grew, and the Lord blessed him.
25. the Lord’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.