12. And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, how shall we manage the child, and what is he to do?
13. And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the mother beware of all that I told her.
14. She may not eat of anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.
15. And Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, Pray, let us detain you that we may prepare a kid for you.
16. And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I will not eat of your food, but if you make ready a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord. For Manoah did not know that he was the Angel of the Lord.
17. And Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true, we may do you honor?
18. And the Angel of the Lord said to him, Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? [Isa. 9:6.]
19. So Manoah took the kid with the cereal offering and offered it upon a rock to the Lord, the Angel working wonders, while Manoah and his wife looked on.
20. For when the flame went up toward the heavens from the altar, the Angel of the Lord ascended in the altar flame. And Manoah and his wife looked on, and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21. The Angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the Angel of the Lord.
22. And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
23. But his [sensible] wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering and a cereal offering from our hands, nor have shown us all these things or now have announced such things as these.
24. And the woman [in due time] bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew and the Lord blessed him.
25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in Mahaneh-dan [the camp of Dan] between Zorah and Eshtaol.