²¹ When the angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been an angel of the Lord. ²² Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen God!” ²³ But his wife answered, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, then he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would he have revealed all of these things, nor would he have told us these things.”