Numbers 6:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ is to abstain from wine and any other fermented drink. He is not to drink any vinegar made from wine or any fermented drink, or any 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

“Do not drink wine or fermented drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, so that you do not die. This is to be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Amos 2:11

I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not so, Bnei Yisrael?” declares Adonai.

Amos 2:12

“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy.’

Numbers 6:4

“All during his days as a Nazirite he is not to eat anything from the grapevine—even the seeds or skins.

Luke 1:15

He will be great before Adonai; and he should not drink wine and intoxicating beverage, but he will be filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh just out of his mother’s womb.

Luke 21:34

“But watch out so your hearts are not weighed down by carousing, strong drink, and the worries of life. Do not let that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not get drunk on wine, for that is recklessness. Instead, be filled with the Ruach,

1 Thessalonians 5:22

keep away from every kind of evil.

1 Timothy 5:23

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and for your frequent ailments.)

Hebrews 9:10

These relate only to food and drink and various washings—regulations for the body imposed until a time of setting things straight.

Judges 13:14

She should not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. She must observe all that I commanded her.”

Judges 13:4

Now therefore be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing.