The messenger ascends

19So Manoah took the young goat and the grain offering, and offered them on the rock to Yahweh, and he did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife were watching.

20And when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were watching; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21And the angel of Yahweh did not appear again to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

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

23But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, he would not have accepted from our hand a burnt offering and a grain offering, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such a thing as this.”