World English Bible
Judges 13:22
“Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
Verse in context — Judges 13
For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
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