Manoah

There was a man from Tzor'ah from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoach; his wife was barren, childless.

Then Manoach prayed to ADONAI, "Please, Adonai, let the man of God you sent come again to us and teach us what we should do for the child who will be born."

God paid attention to what Manoach said, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field, but her husband Manoach wasn't with her.

Manoach got up, followed his wife, went to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?" He answered, "I am."

Manoach asked, "Now, when what you said comes true, what are the guidelines for raising the child? What should be done for him?"

The angel of ADONAI said to Manoach, "The woman should take care to do everything I said to her.

Manoach said to the angel of ADONAI, "Please stay with us a bit longer, so that we can cook a young goat for you."

The angel of ADONAI said to Manoach, "Even if I do stay, I won't eat your food; and if you prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to ADONAI." For Manoach did not know that he was the angel of ADONAI.

Manoach said to the angel of ADONAI, "Tell us your name, so that when your words come true we can honor you."

Manoach took the kid and the grain offering and offered them on the rock to ADONAI. Then, with Manoach and his wife looking on, the angel did something wonderful -

as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of ADONAI went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.

But the angel of ADONAI did not appear again to Manoach or his wife. Then Manoach realized it had been the angel of ADONAI.

Manoach said to his wife, "We will surely die, because we have seen God!"

His brothers and all his father's family came down, took him, brought him up and buried him between Tzor'ah and Eshta'ol, in the tomb of his father Manoach. He had judged Isra'el twenty years.