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Lexicon :: Strong's H8354 - šāṯâ

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שָׁתָה
Transliteration
šāṯâ
Pronunciation
shaw-thaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2477

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁתָה shâthâh, shaw-thaw'; a primitive root; to imbibe (literally or figuratively):—× assuredly, banquet, × certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (× -ard), surely. (Intensive proposition of H8248.)

KJV Translation Count — Total: 217x

The KJV translates Strong's H8354 in the following manner: drink (208x), drinkers (1x), drunkards (1x), banquet (1x), miscellaneous (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 217x
The KJV translates Strong's H8354 in the following manner: drink (208x), drinkers (1x), drunkards (1x), banquet (1x), miscellaneous (6x).

  1. to drink

    1. (Qal)

      1. to drink

        1. of drinking cup of God's wrath, of slaughter, of wicked deeds (fig)

      2. to feast

    2. (Niphal) to be drunk

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁתָה shâthâh, shaw-thaw'; a primitive root; to imbibe (literally or figuratively):—× assuredly, banquet, × certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (× -ard), surely. (Intensive proposition of H8248.)
STRONGS H8354: Abbreviations
I. שָׁתָה 217 verb drink (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian šatû, Ethiopic bdb105901 Old Aramaic שתה, Aramaic שְׁתָא, אִשְׁתִּי, [bdb105902], bdb105903; Sabean שתי DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 403 HomChr 124); —
Qal216 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ Exodus 34:28 +, 1st person singular שָׁתִ֫יתִי 1 Samuel 1:15 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁתֶּה Genesis 44:5 +, וַיִּשְׁתֶּה 1 Kings 19:8, usually וַיֵּשְׁתְּ Genesis 9:21+; jussive וְיֵשְׁתְּ 1 Kings 13:18; 3rd person feminine singular וַתֵּשְׁתְּ Numbers 20:11; 2nd person masculine singular with apocope תֵּשְׁתְּ Judges 13:14 +, וַתֵּשְׁתְּ 1 Kings 13:22; 1st person singular וָאֵשְׁתְּ Genesis 24:46; 3rd person masculine plural יִשְׁתָּי֑וּן Psalm 78:44, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שְׁתֵה Genesis 24:14 +, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁתֹה Isaiah 21:5; Jeremiah 49:12 (in 1 Samuel 1:9 after preposition, anomalous, Ges§ 113e, omitted by Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr and modern), שָׁתוֺ Jeremiah 25:28 +, שָׁתוֺת Isaiah 22:13 (Ges§ 75n); construct תְוֺ Proverbs 31:4, שְׁתוֺת Jeremiah 35:8, 14, לִשְׁתּתֹ Genesis 24:19 +, suffix שְׁתוֺתוֺ 1 Kings 13:33, לִשְׁתּוֺתָהּ Isaiah 51:22 etc.; Participle active שֹׁתֶה Isaiah 29:8 +, feminine שֹׁתָה Job 6:4, etc.; —
1.
a. of man: drink, water, wine, etc., Exodus 34:28 (JE), compare Exodus 15:24 (J), 1 Samuel 30:12; Amos 2:8; Amos 4:8; Amos 5:11; Isaiah 5:22; Isaiah 62:8, 9; Proverbs 31:4; Judges 13:4, 7, 14 + often (2 times J E; + 6 times D); by measure (short allowance) Ezekiel 4:11, 16; milk † Ezekiel 25:4, compare Songs 5:1; blood 1 Chronicles 11:19 (figurative of water gained by hazard); figurative חֲמָתָם שֹׁתָה רוּחִי Job 6:4 whose venom [of arrows of י׳] my spirit drinks up; accusative + מִן of source † Exodus 7:18 (J), Exodus 7:21 (E), Exodus 15:23 (J), Proverbs 5:15 (figurative); accusative (of wine, water, etc.) omitted Genesis 24:14 (twice in verse); Genesis 27:25; Genesis 43:34 (all J) + 11 times J, Exodus 7:24; Exodus 17:6 (E), Numbers 20:5 (JE), Numbers 20:11; Numbers 33:14 (P), Judges 15:19 + often; accusative שׁין † 2 Kings 18:27 = Isaiah 36:12; מַמְתַקִּים Nehemiah 8:10; absolute Ecclesiastes 2:24 +; + מִן of source 1 Kings 17:4, 6; Psalm 110:7, מִכֹּסוֺ 2 Samuel 12:3; בְּמִזְרְקֵי יַיִן שׁ׳ Amos 6:6, compare Genesis 44:5; בְּיַיִן שׁ׳ † Proverbs 9:5; with מִן partitive Genesis 9:21; Exodus 7:24; Ruth 2:9, also (figurative) Jeremiah 51:7 (and Job 21:20 below).
†b. participle as substantive שֹׁתֵי מַיִם Ezekiel 31:14, 16, שֹׁתֵי יַיִן Joel 1:5; שׁוֺתֵי שֵׁכָר Psalm 69:13.
c. drink wine in sacrificial feast Deuteronomy 32:38 (poem); blood of sacrificial victim Psalm 50:13 (figurative of י׳).
d. subject animals Numbers 20:19; Jonah 3:7 (both + men), also (figurative) Ezekiel 34:18, 19; accusative (water) omitted Genesis 24:19, 22; Genesis 30:38 (twice in verse).
e. figurative of drinking cup of י׳'s wrath, אֶתאכּוֺס שׁ׳ חֲמָתוֺ Isaiah 51:17 (+ מִיַּד י׳), compare Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, see also Ezekiel 23:32, 34 and (accusative omitted) Jeremiah 25:16, 26, 27 + 8 times Jeremiah; Habakkuk 2:16; absolute Obadiah 16 (3 times in verse); accusative שְׁמָרִים Psalm 75:9; מֵחֲמַת שַׁדַּי שׁ׳ Job 21:20.
†f. drink blood, figurative of slaughter, Numbers 23:24 (J E; of lion, metaphor of Israel), Zechariah 9:15 (read דָּמָם for הָמוּ Greek Version of the LXXManuscripts Sta Now Marti); so (blood of י׳'s sacrifice) Ezekiel 39:17, 18, 19.
g. figurative of wicked deeds: יֵין חֲמָסִים יִשְׁתּוּ Proverbs 4:17 (|| לָֽחֲמוּ לֶחֶם רֶשַׁע; these are their food and drink), compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7, but Proverbs 26:6 apparently = suffers violence (compare De Toy).
†2. late, = feast Esther 3:15; Esther 7:1 (compare מִשְׁתֶּה).
†Niph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׁתֶה Leviticus 11:34 (P) all which is (may be) drunk, with ב of vessel. — נִשְׁתָּ֑וָה Proverbs 27:15 see I. שׁוה near the end For cause, give, to drink see שׁקה.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8355.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:21; 9:21; 24:14; 24:14; 24:19; 24:19; 24:22; 24:46; 27:25; 30:38; 43:34; 44:5; 44:5

Exodus

7:18; 7:21; 7:24; 7:24; 15:23; 15:24; 17:6; 34:28; 34:28

Leviticus

11:34

Numbers

20:5; 20:11; 20:11; 20:19; 23:24; 33:14

Deuteronomy

32:38

Judges

13:4; 13:7; 13:14; 13:14; 15:19

Ruth

2:9

1 Samuel

1:9; 1:15; 30:12

2 Samuel

12:3

1 Kings

13:18; 13:22; 13:33; 17:4; 17:6; 19:8

2 Kings

18:27

1 Chronicles

11:19

Nehemiah

8:10

Esther

3:15; 7:1

Job

6:4; 6:4; 15:16; 21:20; 21:20; 34:7

Psalms

50:13; 69:13; 75:9; 78:44; 110:7

Proverbs

4:17; 5:15; 9:5; 26:6; 27:15; 31:4; 31:4

Ecclesiastes

2:24

Song of Songs

5:1

Isaiah

5:22; 21:5; 22:13; 29:8; 36:12; 51:17; 51:17; 51:22; 51:22; 62:8; 62:9

Jeremiah

25:16; 25:26; 25:27; 25:28; 35:8; 35:14; 49:12; 51:7

Ezekiel

4:11; 4:16; 23:32; 23:34; 25:4; 31:14; 31:16; 34:18; 34:19; 39:17; 39:18; 39:19

Joel

1:5

Amos

2:8; 4:8; 5:11; 6:6

Obadiah

1:16

Jonah

3:7

Habakkuk

2:16

Zechariah

9:15

H8354

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Strong's Number H8354 matches the Hebrew שָׁתָה (šāṯâ),
which occurs 217 times in 193 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 9:21–Jdg 13:7)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - "Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44 - Then she will reply to me, "Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels too." May that woman be the one whom the LORD has chosen for my master's son.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:30 - So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:25 - Isaac said, "Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you." So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:5 - Doesn't my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile."'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:24 - So the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What can we drink?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the Desert of Sin according to the LORD's instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:2 - So the people contended with Moses, and they said, "Give us water to drink!" Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink." And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:11 - But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - "Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:34 - Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:3 - he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - then the priest must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. After this the Nazirite may drink wine.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King's Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - Then the Israelites said to him, "We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - "Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King's Highway until we pass your borders."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:14 - They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:6 - You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28 - Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:6 - You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer - all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:38 - who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the men down to the water. Then the LORD said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Three hundred men lapped; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:4 - Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - He said to me, 'Look, you will conceive and have a son. So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. For the child will be dedicated to God from birth till the day he dies.'"

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