8. Then Manoah said a prayer to the Lord: “Lord, I beg you to let the man of God come to us again. Let him teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born to us.”
9. God heard Manoah’s prayer. The angel of God came to Manoah’s wife again. This was while she was sitting in a field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.
10. So she ran to tell him, “He is here! The man who appeared to me the other day is here!”
11. Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”The man said, “I am.”
12. So Manoah asked, “When what you say happens, what kind of life should the boy live? What should he do?”
13. The angel of the Lord said, “Your wife must do everything I told her to do.
14. She must not eat anything that grows on a grapevine. She must not drink any wine or beer. She must not eat anything that is unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her to do.”
15. Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “We would like you to stay awhile. We want to cook a young goat for you.”
16. The angel of the Lord answered, “Even if I stay awhile, I would not eat your food. But if you want to prepare something, offer a burnt offering to the Lord.” (Manoah did not understand that the man was really the angel of the Lord.)
17. Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name? We want to know. Then we may honor you when what you have said really happens.”
18. The angel of the Lord said, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful for you to understand.”