◄ Judges 13:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Be sure not to drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food;

New Revised Standard Version
Now be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, or to eat anything unclean,

New American Bible
Now, then, be careful to drink no wine or beer and to eat nothing unclean,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

drink not

Judges 13:14 And let her eat nothing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I have commanded her, let her fulfil and observe.

Numbers 6:2,3 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord: . . .

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

eat not

Leviticus 11:27,47 That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening. . . .

Acts 10:14 But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.

Context
The Birth of Samson
…3And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son. 4Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.5Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.…
Cross References
Luke 1:15
For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Numbers 6:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord:

Numbers 6:3
They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried.

Judges 13:13
And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I have spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself:

Judges 13:3
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