Numbers 6:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Take 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.
  • 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.
  • Amos 2:12 : 12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
  • Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink? 5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
  • Jer 35:6-8 : 6 But 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: 7 And 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. 8 And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Keep from every form of evil.
  • Luke 7:33-34 : 33 For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit. 34 The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 6:4-6
    3 verses
    89%

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

    5All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

    6All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

  • Num 6:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1And the Lord said to Moses,

    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;

  • Judg 13:14
    75%

    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.

  • Judg 13:4
    74%

    4Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

  • Lev 10:9
    74%

    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.

  • Judg 13:7
    73%

    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.

  • Num 6:19-21
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    73%

    19And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,

    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.

    21This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.

  • Ezek 44:21
    73%

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

  • Jer 35:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    8And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;

  • Num 6:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

    13And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    70%

    30Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

    31Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

  • Deut 28:39
    70%

    39You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Isa 24:9
    70%

    9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Luke 5:37-39
    3 verses
    69%

    37And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

    38But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

    39And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    69%

    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.

  • Prov 31:6
    69%

    6Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

  • Num 6:8
    69%

    8All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Amos 2:12
    69%

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

  • Joel 1:5
    69%

    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Luke 22:18
    68%

    18For I say to you, I will not take of the fruit of the vine till the kingdom of God has come.

  • Prov 31:4
    68%

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

  • Hos 4:11
    68%

    11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • 1 Sam 1:14
    68%

    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.

  • Mic 6:15
    68%

    15You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Mark 2:22
    68%

    22And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

  • Prov 20:1
    67%

    1Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Hab 2:15
    67%

    15A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Luke 1:15
    67%

    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.

  • Deut 23:24
    67%

    24When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.

  • Mark 14:25
    67%

    25Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.

  • Num 15:7
    67%

    7And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Rom 14:21
    67%

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

  • Deut 29:6
    67%

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

  • Gen 49:11
    67%

    11Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:

  • Matt 26:29
    67%

    29But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

  • Lev 25:11
    66%

    11Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

  • Hab 2:5
    66%

    5A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

  • Num 28:7
    66%

    7And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.