Numbers 6:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ During that time, that person must not drink any wine or other strong drink. The person must not drink vinegar that is made from wine or from other strong drink. That person must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, and shall drink no grape juice, or eat grapes, fresh or dried. [Luke 1:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Common English Bible

³ that person must refrain from wine and brandy. He or she may not drink wine vinegar or brandy vinegar, nor drink any grape juice or eat grapes, whether fresh or dried.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ shall abstain from wine and from anything which is able to inebriate. They shall not drink vinegar made from wine or from any other drink, nor anything pressed from the grape. They shall not eat grapes, neither fresh nor dried.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink: nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape. Nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried.

Numbers 6:3 Cross References

Leviticus 10:9

“You and your sons must not drink wine or beer when you come into the Meeting Tent. {If you drink those things,} then you will die! This law continues forever through your generations.

Amos 2:11

I made some of your sons to be prophets. I made some of your young men to be Nazirites. {\cf2\super [42]} People of Israel, it is true.” The Lord said these things.

Amos 2:12

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine. You told the prophets not to prophesy.

Numbers 6:4

That person must not eat anything that comes from grapes during that special time of separation. That person must not even eat the seeds or the skins from grapes.

Luke 1:15

John will be a great man for the Lord (God). He will never drink wine or liquor. Even at the time when John is being born, he will be filled with the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [6]}

Luke 21:34

“Be careful! Don’t spend your time drinking and getting drunk. Or don’t be too busy with worldly things. If you do that, you will not be able to think right. And then the end might come when you are not ready.

Ephesians 5:18

Don’t be drunk with wine. That will ruin (destroy) you spiritually. But be filled with the Spirit. {\cf2\super [39]}

1 Thessalonians 5:22

And stay away from everything that is evil.

1 Timothy 5:23

Timothy, stop drinking only water, and drink a little wine. This will help your stomach, and you will not be sick so often.

Hebrews 9:10

Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—\{not about things inside people’s hearts\}. God gave those rules \{for his people to follow\} until the time of God’s new way.

Judges 13:14

She must not eat anything that grows on a grapevine. She must not drink any wine or strong drink. She must not eat any food that is unclean. [105] She must do everything that I have commanded her to do.”

Judges 13:4

Don’t drink any wine or any other strong drink. Don’t eat any food that is unclean. [101]