Judges 13:4

Complete Jewish Bible

Now, therefore, be careful not to drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, and don't eat anything unclean.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer, or to eat anything unclean;

Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

King James Version
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Lexham English Bible
So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,

English Standard Version
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

New Century Version
Be careful not to drink wine or beer or eat anything that is unclean,

New English Translation
Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.

Amplified Bible
"Therefore, be careful not to drink wine or [any other] intoxicating drink, and do not eat anything [ceremonially] unclean.

New American Standard Bible
"And now, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And nowe therefore beware that thou drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing.

Legacy Standard Bible
Neem jou dan nou tog in ag en drink geen wyn of sterk drank nie en eet niks wat onrein is nie.

Darby Translation
And now beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat nothing unclean.

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't drink any wine or any other strong drink. Don't eat any food that is unclean,

George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore beware, lest you drink wine or strong drink; and you shall not eat anything unclean.

Good News Translation
Be sure not to drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food;

Literal Translation
And now take heed, and please do not drink wine or fermented drink; and do not eat any unclean thing .

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take hede therfore, yt thou drynke no wyne ner stronge drynke, and yt thou eate no vncleane thinge,

American Standard Version
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Bible in Basic English
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe therfore beware that thou drinke no wyne, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

King James Version (1611)
Now therefore beware I pray thee, and drinke not wine, nor strong drinke, and eat not any vncleane thing.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now be very cautious, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing;

English Revised Version
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Berean Standard Bible
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor be thou war, lest thou drynke wyn, and sydur, nethir ete thou ony vnclene thing;

Young's Literal Translation
And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,

Update Bible Version
Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:

World English Bible
Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

New King James Version
Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.

New Living Translation
So be careful; you must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink nor eat any forbidden food.

New Life Bible
So be careful not to drink wine or strong drink. Do not eat anything that is unclean.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, beware, I pray thee, and do not drink wine or strong drink, - nor eat anything unclean;

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

Revised Standard Version
Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

Contextual Overview

¹ Again the people of Isra'el did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, and Adonai handed them over to the P'lishtim for forty years. ² There was a man from Tzor‘ah from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoach; his wife was barren, childless. ³ The angel of Adonai appeared to the woman and said to her, "Listen! You are barren, you haven't had a child, but you will conceive and bear a son. ⁴ Now, therefore, be careful not to drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, and don't eat anything unclean. ⁵ For indeed you will conceive and bear a son. No razor is to touch his head, because the child will be a nazir for God from the womb. Moreover, he will begin to rescue Isra'el from the power of the P'lishtim." ⁶ The woman came and told her husband; she said, "A man of God came to me; his face was fearsome, like that of the angel of God. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name. ⁷ But he said to me, ‘Listen! You will conceive and bear a son, so now don't drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, and don't eat anything unclean, because the child will be a nazir for God from the womb until the day he dies.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

drink not: Judges 13:14, Numbers 6:2, Numbers 6:3, Luke 1:15

eat not: Leviticus 11:27, Leviticus 11:47, Acts 10:14

Reciprocal: Amos 2:11 - Nazarites

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
To Shet too was born a son, whom he called Enosh. That is when people began to call on the name of Adonai .

Genesis 13:1
Avram went up from Egypt — he, his wife and everything he had, and Lot with him — into the Negev.

Genesis 13:2
Avram became wealthy, with much cattle, silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
As he went on his travels from the Negev, he came to Beit-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and ‘Ai,

Genesis 13:7
Moreover, quarreling arose between Avram's and Lot's herdsmen. The Kena‘ani and the P'rizi were then living in the land.

Genesis 13:8
Avram said to Lot, "Please, let's not have quarreling between me and you, or between my herdsmen and yours, since we're kinsmen.

Genesis 13:18
Avram moved his tent and came to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron. There he built an altar to Adonai .

Psalms 26:8
Adonai , I love the house where you live, the place where your glory abides.

Psalms 84:10
God, see our shield [the king]; look at the face of your anointed.

Psalms 107:1
Give thanks to Adonai ; for he is good, for his grace continues forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink,.... Any liquor inebriating and intoxicating, neither new wine nor old wine, as the Targum, and so Jarchi; the reason of this appears in the next verse, because the child she should conceive and bear was to be a Nazarite, and to be one from his mother's womb; and from all such liquors, Nazarites, according to the law, were to abstain, Numbers 6:3

and eat not any unclean thing; meaning not so much such sort of food as was forbidden by the law to be eaten, which every Israelite was to abstain from, but such as were particularly forbidden to Nazarites, as moist and dried grapes, or anything made of the vine tree, from the kernel to the husk, Numbers 6:3. The reason of this is, because the child in the womb is nourished with the same the mother is; and as this child was to be a Nazarite from the womb, and even in it, his mother was to abstain both from eatables and drinkables forbidden a Nazarite by the law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 13:4. Beware - drink not wine — As Samson was designed to be a Nazarite from the womb, it was necessary that, while his mother carried and nursed him, she should live the life of a Nazarite, neither drinking wine nor any inebriating liquor, nor eating any kind of forbidden meat. See the account of the Nazarite and his vow, see in Clarke's notes on "Numbers 6:2", &c.