Judges 13:4

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Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 6:2-3 : 2 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; 3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
  • Judg 13:14 : 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 : 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.
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
  • Judg 13:7 : 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.
  • Lev 11:27 : 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.
  • Lev 11:47 : 47 Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 13:5-8
    4 verses
    89%

    5For 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.

    6Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;

    7But 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.

    8Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

  • Judg 13:12-16
    5 verses
    87%

    12And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

    13And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the woman take note of what I have said to her.

    14She 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.

    15And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.

    16And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.

  • Judg 13:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

    3And 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.

  • Luke 1:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

    14And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

    15For 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.

  • Num 6:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

    3He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

    4All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

  • 1 Sam 1:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine.

    14And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

    15And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

  • Lev 10:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

    10And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • 1 Sam 1:11
    71%

    11And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

  • Ruth 3:3
    68%

    3So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.

  • Amos 2:12
    68%

    12But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

  • Ezek 44:21
    68%

    21The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

  • 1 Kgs 13:17
    67%

    17For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

  • Deut 12:24-25
    2 verses
    67%

    24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Jer 35:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

    7And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • Lev 12:4
    67%

    4And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.

  • Luke 1:36
    66%

    36Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

  • Num 5:28
    66%

    28But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

  • 1 Sam 1:22-24
    3 verses
    66%

    22But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

    23And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast.

    24Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.

  • 1 Kgs 13:9
    66%

    9For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

  • Hos 4:11
    66%

    11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Lev 11:34
    66%

    34Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.

  • Deut 14:3
    66%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Num 6:20
    66%

    20Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

  • Deut 29:6
    65%

    6You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.

  • Prov 31:4
    65%

    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

  • Prov 23:20
    65%

    20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Lev 12:2
    65%

    2Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

  • Gen 24:37
    65%

    37And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • Rom 14:21
    65%

    21It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    65%

    23Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Jer 16:8
    65%

    8And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.