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Manoah said, "Now let Your words come to pass! What will be the boy's rule of life, and his work?"
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So the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.
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She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her let her observe."
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Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, "Please let us detain You, and we will prepare a young goat for You."
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And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Though you detain Me, I will not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord." (For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord.)
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Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, "What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass 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 Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on--
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it happened as the flame went up toward heaven from the altar--the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.
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When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah 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 had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time."
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So the woman 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 move upon him at Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.