20 And when the flame of the altar ascended to heaven, the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. And when Manoah and his wife had seen this, they fell prone on the ground.
21 And the Angel of the Lord no longer appeared to them. And immediately, Manoah understood him to be an Angel of the Lord.
22 And he said to his wife, 'We shall certainly die, since we have seen God.'
23 And his wife answered him, 'If the Lord wished to kill us, he would not have accepted the holocaust and the libations from our hands. He would not have revealed all these things to us, nor would he have told us the things that are in the future.'
24 And so she bore a son, and she called his name Samson. And the boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
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