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Judges 13:4

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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Judges 13:1-7

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…