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The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat your food; but if you want to prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)
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Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?"
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But the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful."
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So Manoah took the kid with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to him who works wonders.
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When the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."
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But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."
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The woman bore a son, and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.
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The spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.