¹³The Messenger of the Lord answered Manoah, “Your wife must be careful to do everything I told her to do. ¹⁴She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevines, drink any wine or liquor, or eat any unclean food. She must be careful to do everything I commanded.”

¹⁵Manoah said to the Messenger of the Lord, “Please stay while we prepare a young goat for you to eat.”

¹⁶But the Messenger of the Lord responded, “If I stay here, I will not eat any of your food. But if you make a burnt offering, sacrifice it to the Lord.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the Messenger of the Lord.)

¹⁷Then Manoah asked the Messenger of the Lord, “What is your name? When your words come true, we will honor you.”

¹⁸The Messenger of the Lord asked him, “Why do you ask for my name? It’s a name that works miracles.”

¹⁹So Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and sacrificed them to the Lord on a rock he used as an altar. While Manoah and his wife watched, the Lord did something miraculous. ²⁰As the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the Messenger of the Lord went up in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they immediately bowed down with their faces touching the ground.

²¹The Messenger of the Lord didn’t appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah knew that this had been the Messenger of the Lord.

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