Bible verse

Judges 13:4

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

Judges 13:4 · BSB

Judges 13:4 in context

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.”

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Judges 13:4 in other translations

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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