Judges 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son.13 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.14 For the child will be dedicated15 to God from birth till the day he dies.’ ”

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13	tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
14	tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
15	tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”