8. Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God that you sent come back to us and tell us what we must do with the boy when he is born.”
9. God did what Manoah asked, and his angel came back to the woman while she was sitting in the fields. Her husband Manoah was not with her,
10. so she ran at once and said to him, “Look! The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me again.”
11. Manoah got up and followed his wife. He went to the man and asked, “Are you the man who was talking to my wife?”“Yes,” he answered.
12. Then Manoah asked, “When your words come true, what must the boy do? What kind of a life must he lead?”
13. The Lord's angel answered, “Your wife must be sure to do everything that I have told her.
14. She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine; she must not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. She must do everything that I have told her.”
17. Manoah replied, “Tell us your name, so that we can honour you when your words come true.”
18. The angel asked, “Why do you want to know my name? It is a name of wonder.”
19. So Manoah took a young goat and some grain, and offered them on the rock altar to the Lord who works wonders.
22. Manoah said to his wife, “We are sure to die, because we have seen God!”
23. But his wife answered, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted our offerings; he would not have shown us all this or told us such things now.”