⁹ “^(A)Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—

² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a ^[a]special vow, the vow of ^(A)a ^[b]Nazirite, to ^[c]dedicate himself to the Lord, ³ he shall ^(B)abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes. ⁴ All the days of his ^[d]separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

⁷ But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

¹⁴ She should not eat anything that comes from the ^(A)vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded.”

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will ^(A)drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit ^[a]while yet in his mother’s womb.