An Angel Appears to Manoah and His Wife

Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the Lord,

"What is your name,

so that we may honor you

when your word comes true?"

He replied, "Why do you ask my name?

It is beyond understanding."

Then Manoah took a young goat,

together with a grain offering,

and sacrificed it on a rock

to the Lord.

And the Lord did an amazing thing

while Manoah and his wife watched:

As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven,

the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame.

Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell

with their faces to the ground.

When the angel of the Lord

did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife,

Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord.

"We are doomed to die!" he said to his wife.

"We have seen God!"

But his wife answered,

"If the Lord had meant to kill us,

He would not have accepted

a burnt offering and grain offering

from our hands,

nor shown us all these things

or now told us this."

The woman gave birth to a boy

and named him Samson.

(Judges 13:14-24)