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Judges 13:23

Verse 23 of 25. The 13th of 21 chapters in Judges, in History.

19So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

20For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, the LORD’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21But 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.

22Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

23But 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, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

24The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

25The LORD’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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