⁹ “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,

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man or woman wants to make a special vow^(A), a vow of dedication^(B) to the Lord as a Nazirite,^{(C) 3} they must abstain from wine^(D) and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar^(E) made from wine or other fermented drink. They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes^(F) or raisins. ⁴ As long as they remain under their Nazirite vow, they must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.

⁷ But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine^(A) or other fermented drink^(B) and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.^(C)’”

¹⁴ She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink^(A) nor eat anything unclean.^(B) She must do everything I have commanded her.”

²¹ No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.^(A)

¹⁵ for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink,^(A) and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit^(B) even before he is born.^(C)