Hebrew Bible · Judges 13:6, 18–20
The angel who rose in the flame
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For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar.
Translation: KJV
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Read it literally
The visitor refuses to give his name ('seeing it is secret') and leaves by rising in a column of fire. Then Samson, a man of unnatural strength, is born.
What scholars say
Read as a birth-announcement story.
