Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean:
New American Standard Bible
Now therefore, be careful
King James Version
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Holman Bible
Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer,
International Standard Version
So be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything unclean
A Conservative Version
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat 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:
Amplified
Therefore, be careful not to drink wine or [any other] intoxicating drink, and do not eat anything [ceremonially] unclean.
Bible in Basic English
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;
Darby Translation
Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
King James 2000
Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Lexham Expanded Bible
So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,
Modern King James verseion
And now, please take heed, and do not drink wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And now beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink; neither eat any unclean thing.
NET Bible
Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.
New Heart English Bible
Now therefore please be careful and drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing.
The Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, beware, I pray thee, and do not drink wine or strong drink, - nor eat anything unclean;
Webster
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:
Youngs Literal Translation
And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,
Themes
Abstinence » Total abstinence » Strong Drink » Law from the nazarites
Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
Total abstinence » Instances of » Samson
Conception » Miraculous » Manoah's wife
Food » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
Manoah » A danite » Of zorah » Father of » Samson
Samson » A danite » son of manoah
Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites
Temperance » Total abstinence » Law from the nazarites
Unclean » Physical food, kinds prohibited by mosaic law
Topics
Interlinear
Shamar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 13:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samson's Parents
3 And a messenger of Jehovah will be seen to the woman, and will say to her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not; and thou conceivedst and bearest a son. 4 And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean: 5 For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim.
Cross References
Numbers 6:2-3
Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate to vow a vow, being consecrated, to be separated to Jehovah:
Judges 13:14
From all going forth from the vine of the wine she shall not eat, and wine and strong drink she shall not drink, and any thing unclean she shall not eat: all which I commanded she shall watch.
Luke 1:15
For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.
Leviticus 11:27
And every one going upon his hands among all beasts going upon four, they are unclean to you: every one touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 11:47
To separate between the unclean and between the clean, and between the beast being eaten and between the beast which shall not be eaten.
Judges 13:7
And he will say to me, Behold, thee conceiving, and thou bearest a son; and now drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb, even to the day of his death.
Acts 10:14
And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean.