Judges 13:15-25 ▼

15 Then Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, “Please let us delay you so that we may prepare a young goat for you.”

16 And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, “Though you delay me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

17 Then Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, “What is your name, so that when your words come to pass, we may honor you?”

18 But the angel of Yahweh said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”

19 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to Yahweh, and He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on.

20 Indeed, it happened when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife saw this, so they fell on their faces to the ground.

21 Now the angel of Yahweh did not appear to Manoah or his wife again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

22 So Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen God.”

23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh had desired to put us to death, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time.”

24 Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up, and Yahweh blessed him.

25 And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.