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Manoah Offers a Sacrifice
Judges 13:15-23
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Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “Please, let us detain you, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
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the LORD’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was the LORD’s angel.
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Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”
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the LORD’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?”
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So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD. Then the angel did a wonderful thing as Manoah and his wife looked on.
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For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, the LORD’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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But the LORD’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the LORD’s angel.
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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 were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.”
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