Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
"And the angel of Jehovah departed out of his sight"  (Judges 6:21). "In a very similar case of the angel who appeared to Manoah  (Judges 13:15-20), the angel ascended in the flame of fire from the altar.  It is probable that he did so in the present instance, though it is not expressly stated how he disappeared."[12]