19. So Manoah took a young goat and some grain, and offered them on the rock altar to the Lord who works wonders.
20-21. While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw the Lord's angel go up towards heaven in the flames. Manoah realized then that the man had been the Lord's angel, and he and his wife threw themselves face downwards on the ground. They never saw the angel again.
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.”