15Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”
The term “detain” has the sense of “holding back.” This seems to be Manoah’s chief role in the narrative: holding back or delaying progress by not listening to his wife and having unneeded conversation with the angel.
15 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”