But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
"We shall surely die"  (Judges 13:22).  This appeared to Manoah as a very logical deduction, because God had stated through Moses that, "Thou shalt not see my face; for man shall not see me and live"  (Exodus 32:20). Yes, he knew the Book of Moses, and it hardly needs mentioning that hundreds of examples of this same phenomenon utterly contradict and destroy the critical fairy tale about the Pentateuch's being a late production. Gideon was also familiar with the same teaching  (Judges 6:22), as was Isaiah  (Isaiah 6:5).