“You and your sons are not to drink wine(A) or beer(B) when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute(C) throughout your generations.

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“You and your sons are not to drink wine(A) or other fermented drink(B) whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance(C) for the generations to come,

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Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

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he is to abstain[a] from wine and beer.(A) He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 6:3 In Hb, the words Nazirite, consecrate, and abstain are related and involve the idea of separation.

they must abstain from wine(A) and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar(B) made from wine or other fermented drink. They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes(C) or raisins.

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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.

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you did not eat bread or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.

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You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink.(A) I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.”(B)

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Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

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Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer,(A) or to eat anything unclean;(B)

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Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink(A) and that you do not eat anything unclean.(B)

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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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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are fearless at mixing beer,(A)

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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(A)
    and champions at mixing drinks,(B)

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22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

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They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.

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No longer do they drink wine(A) with a song;
    the beer is bitter(B) to its drinkers.

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They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

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These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.(A)
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.

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And these also stagger(A) from wine(B)
    and reel(C) from beer:
Priests(D) and prophets(E) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,(F)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.

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But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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12 “Come, let me get some wine,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”(A)

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12 “Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine!(A)
    Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
    or even far better.”(B)

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12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

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