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And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee?
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And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?
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Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.
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And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the same. And when Manue and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;
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And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,
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And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.
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And his wife answered him: If the Lord had a mind to kill us, he would not have received a holocaust and libations at our hands; neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor have told us the things that are to come.
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And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.
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And the Spirit of the Lord began to be with him in the camp of Dan, between Saraa and Esthaol.