Judges 13:13–21

¹³The angel of the Lord answered Manoah, “Your wife needs to do everything I told her. ¹⁴She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink wine or beer. And she must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must do everything I have commanded her.”

¹⁵“Please stay here,” Manoah told him, “and we will prepare a young goat^l for you.”

¹⁶The angel of the Lord said to him, “If I stay, I won’t eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.” (Manoah did not know he was the angel of the Lord.)

¹⁷Then Manoah said to him, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?”

¹⁸“Why do you ask my name,” the angel of the Lord asked him, “since it is beyond understanding?”^a

¹⁹Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord, who did something miraculous^B while Manoah and his wife were watching. ²⁰When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the Lord went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown on the ground. ²¹The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord.