Discovery BoxJudges 13:7 
Context13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 1 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 2 For the child will be dedicated 3 to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
Judges 13:14
Context13:14 She should not drink 4 anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. 5 She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”
1 tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
2 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
3 tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”
4 tn Heb “eat.”
5 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
