Judges 13:4

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Now therefore beware I pray thee, and drinke not wine, nor strong drinke, and eat not any vncleane thing.

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.

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.

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 And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord deliuered them into the hand of the Philistines forty yeeres. ² And there was a certaine man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and bare not. ³ And the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne. ⁴ Now therefore beware I pray thee, and drinke not wine, nor strong drinke, and eat not any vncleane thing. ⁵ For loe, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite vnto God from the wombe: and he shall begin to deliuer Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁶ Then the woman came, and told her husband, saying; A man of God came vnto mee, and his countenance was like the countenance of an Angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: ⁷ But he said vnto mee, Behold, thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne; and now, drinke no wine nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shal be a Nazarite to God, from the wombe, to the day of his death.

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
And to Seth, to him also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to call vpon the Name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer, and in gold.

Genesis 13:3
And hee went on his iourneyes from the South, euen to Beth-el, vnto the place where his tent had bene at the beginning, betweene Beth-el and Hai:

Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife betweene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell: And the Canaanite, and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 13:8
And Abram said vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene mee and thee, and betweene my heardmen and thy heardmen: for wee bee brethren.

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelt in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar vnto the LORD.

Psalms 26:8
Lord, I haue loued the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Psalms 84:10
For a day in thy courts, is better then a thousand: I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse.

Psalms 107:1
O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for hee is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.

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.