^{15 Ref} Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.

^{16 Ref} The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

^{17 Ref} Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?

^{18 Ref} The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

^{19 Ref} So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

^{20 Ref} For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

^{21 Ref} But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

^{22 Ref} Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

^{23 Ref} But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

^{24 Ref} The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

^{25 Ref} The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.