20. A flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven. The angel of the Lord rose up in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw it, they fell with their faces to the ground.
21. The angel of the Lord didn't show himself again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized it was the angel of the Lord.
22. "We're going to die!" he said to his wife. "We've seen God!"
23. But his wife answered, "The Lord doesn't want to kill us. If he did, he wouldn't have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us. He wouldn't have shown us all of those things. He wouldn't have told us we're going to have a son."
24. Later, the woman had a baby boy. She named him Samson. As he grew up, the Lord blessed him.