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Judges 13:4
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Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing:]
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Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
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Judges 13
2 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
3 The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
4 Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
5 For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
6 So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
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