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