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 dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh, ³ he shall ^(B)abstain as a Nazirite 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 ^[c]Nazirite vow he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

⁷ And he said to me, ‘Behold, you ^[a]shall be with child and give birth to a son, so now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, and you shall not 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 keep all that I commanded.”

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the ^[a]Lord; and ^(A)he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit ^[b]while yet in his mother’s womb.