19. Then Manoah took a young goat with a grain offering and offered it on the rock to the Lord, who works wonders. While Manoah and his wife were looking on,
20. as the flame rose to the heavens from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground;
21. but the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah, realizing that it was the angel of the Lord,
22. said to his wife, “We will certainly die, for we have seen God.”
23. But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands! Nor would he have let us see all this, or hear what we have heard.”
24. The woman bore a son and named him Samson, and when the boy grew up the Lord blessed him.
25. The spirit of the Lord came upon him for the first time in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.