Judges 13:4
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New International Version (©1984)
Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean,

New Living Translation (©2007)
So be careful; you must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink nor eat any forbidden food.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Therefore be careful 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Now you must be careful. Don't drink any wine or liquor or eat any unclean food.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

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

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,

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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 in the notes on Numbers 6:2 (note), etc.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.


Geneva Study Bible

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


Wesley's Notes

13:4 Beware - Because the child was to be a Nazarite from the womb, ver.5, and from the conception; and because the mother's pollution extends to the child, she is enjoined from this time to observe the following rules belonging to the Nazarites. Strong drink - Under which are comprehended the other particulars mentioned, Numb 6:2 -
4. Nor eat - Any of those meats forbidden, Levit 11:1 - 47, which were forbidden to all, but especially to the Nazarites.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:1-7 Israel did evil: then God delivered them again into the hands of the Philistines. When Israel was in this distress, Samson was born. His parents had been long childless. Many eminent persons were born of such mothers. Mercies long waited for, often prove signal mercies; and by them others may be encouraged to continue their hope in God's mercy. The angel notices her affliction. God often sends comfort to his people very seasonably, when they feel their troubles most. This deliverer of Israel must be devoted to God. Manoah's wife was satisfied that the messenger was of God. She gave her husband a particular account, both of the promise and of the precept. Husbands and wives should tell each other their experiences of communion with God, and their improvements in acquaintance with him, that they may help each other in the way that is holy.


Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.
Numbers 6:2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the LORD as a Nazirite,
Numbers 6:3 he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
Judges 13:13 The angel of the LORD answered, "Your wife must do all that I have told her.

Beware Care Careful Drink Eat Heed Please Strong Unclean Wine


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

drink not Jud 13:14 Nu 6:2,3 Lu 1:15

eat not Le 11:27,47 Ac 10:14

Judges Chapter 13 Verse 4

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