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The angel of the LORD said to Manoach, 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 the LORD. For Manoach didn't know that he was the angel of the LORD.
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Manoach said to the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?
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The angel of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
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So Manoach took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoach and his wife looked on.
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For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoach and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoach or to his wife. Then Manoach knew that he was the angel of the LORD.
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Manoach said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
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But his wife said to him, If the LORD 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.
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The woman bore a son, and named him Shimshon: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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The Spirit of the LORD began to move him in Machane-Dan, between Tzor`ah and Eshta'ol.