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- Verse 4
Judges 13:4
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink,.... Any liquor inebriating and intoxicating, neither new wine nor old wine, as the Targum, and so Jarchi; the reason of this…
The first verse gives us a short account, such as we have too often met with already, of the great distress that Israel was in, which gave occasion for the raising up of a deliverer. They did evil, as…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The mother during the time of pregnancy is to observe certain ceremonial restrictions (Jdg 13:13; Jdg 13:13); she is to live in a state of consecration, in order that her child may be consecrated from…
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