Manoah

Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us what we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born.

And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord appeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue her husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel,

He rose up, and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said to him: Art thou he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.

And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what wilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?

And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I have spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself:

And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to consent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.

And the angel answered him: If thou press me I will not eat of thy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord. And Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.

And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee?

Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.

And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the same. And when Manue and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;

And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,

And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.

And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.