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Judges 13:4

Don't drink any wine or any other strong drink. Don't eat any food that is unclean,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abstinence, Total;   Conception;   Manoah;   Samson;   Wine;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abstinence;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   Total Abstinence;   Unclean;   Victuals;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Harosheth of the Gentiles;   Nazarite;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nazirite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Drink, Strong;   Manoah;   Nazarite;   Samson;   Wine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judges, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Annunciation;   Judges, Book of;   Samson;   Strong Drink;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Judges (1);   Levi;   Manoah;   Nazirite;   Philistines;   Samson;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Nazirite;   Nazirite ;   Zacharias ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Manoah ;   Nazarite ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Manoah;   Nazarene;   Samson;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drink, Strong;   Manoah;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dietary Laws;   Nazarite;   Pharisees;  

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, therefore, be careful not to drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, and don't eat anything unclean.
Darby Translation
And now beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat nothing 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 started doing what the Lord said was wrong. So the Lord allowed the Philistines to rule over them for 40 years. 2 There was a man named Manoah from the city of Zorah. He was from the tribe of Dan. Manoah had a wife, but she was not able to have any children. 3 The angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah's wife and said, "You have not been able to have children. But you will become pregnant and have a son. 4 Don't drink any wine or any other strong drink. Don't eat any food that is unclean, 5 because you are pregnant, and you will have a son. He will be dedicated to God in a special way. He will be a Nazirite. So you must never cut his hair. He will be God's special person from before he is born. He will save the Israelites from the power of the Philistines." 6 Then the woman went to her husband and told him what had happened. She said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God. He frightened me. I didn't ask him where he was from, and he didn't tell me his name. 7 But he said to me, ‘You are pregnant and will have a son. Don't drink any wine or other strong drink. Don't eat any food that is unclean, because the boy will be dedicated to God in a special way. The boy will be God's special person from before he is born 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
Seth also had a son. He named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .
Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt. He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned. Lot was also with them.
Genesis 13:2
At this time Abram was very rich. He had many animals and much silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3
Abram continued traveling around. He left the Negev and went back to Bethel. He went to the place between the city of Bethel and Ai, where he and his family had camped before.
Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the big trees of Mamre. This was near the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to honor the Lord .
Psalms 26:8
Lord , I love the house where you live, the place where your glory is.
Psalms 84:10
One day in your Temple is better than a thousand days anywhere else. Serving as a guard at the gate of my God's house is better than living in the homes of the wicked.
Psalms 107:1
Praise the Lord , because he is good! His faithful love will last 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.


 
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