Numbers 6:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

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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

“Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Amos 2:11

And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” says the Lord.

Amos 2:12

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’

Numbers 6:4

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.

Luke 1:15

for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 21:34

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

Ephesians 5:18

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

1 Timothy 5:23

No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Hebrews 9:10

but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

Judges 13:14

She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.”

Judges 13:4

Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,