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And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Mano'ah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)
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And Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"
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And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?"
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So Mano'ah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders.
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And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar while Mano'ah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Mano'ah and to his wife. Then Mano'ah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.
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And Mano'ah 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 cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."
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And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Ma'haneh-dan, between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol.