Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
It is significant here that the Angel of Jehovah would not `eat bread' with Manoah.  This contrasts with the fact that God Himself walked and talked with Adam in the Garden of Eden, and that the Divine Messengers who visited Abraham  (Genesis 18) actually ate with that patriarch.  "God's intercourse (contact) with mankind was more intimate and natural in the remote past."[19] Moore cited this as a belief held both by Israel and other ancient peoples.  The Bible proves that this belief was true, and therefore we are justified in accepting the Pentateuch as a far older book than Judges.  We have honored this certainty by accepting a date for Judges as circa 1160-1100 B.C., and the date of Genesis as almost half a millennium earlier, that is, prior to 1400 B.C.