Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;
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.
Darby Translation
Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
Julia Smith Translation
And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing 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 the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son. 4 Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food; 5 For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
Cross References
Numbers 6:2-3
Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;
Judges 13:14
She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
Leviticus 11:27
Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 11:47
Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.
Judges 13:7
But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.
Acts 10:14
But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.