Bible verse
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
Judges 13:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 13.
1 Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
2 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
3 The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
4 Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
5 For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
6 So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
7 But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
KJV
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:
ASV
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
ERV
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
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