Mínshùjì 6:3

3 Tā jiù yào yuǎn lí qīng jiǔ nóng jiǔ , yĕ bùkĕ hē shénme qīng jiǔ nóng jiǔ zuò de cù . bùkĕ hē shénme pútàozhī , yĕ bùkĕ chī xiān pútào hé gān pútào .

Mínshùjì 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 6:3

He shall separate [himself] from wine
Old or new, as Ben Gersom; from drinking it, any of it: not only from an immoderate and excessive drinking of it, which every man should abstain from, but from drinking of it at all, that he might be more free and fit for the service of God; for prayer, meditation, reading the Scriptures, and attendance on the worship of God in all its branches, and be less liable to temptations to sin; for, as Aben Ezra observes, many transgressions are occasioned by wine, which, if drank immoderately, intoxicates the mind, and unfits for religious duties, excites lust, and leads on to many vices:

and strong drink;
any other intoxicating and inebriating liquor besides wine, or any other sort of wines besides such that is made of the fruit of the vine, as wines of pomegranates, dates or such as are made of barley, as our ale, or of apples and pears, called cider and perry, respectively:

and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink;
all the three Targums paraphrase it, vinegar of new wine, and vinegar of old wine, these operating in like manner as wine and strong drink themselves:

neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes;
any liquor in which grapes are macerated, as the Targum of Jonathan; or water into which they are squeezed, or which is made of the lees of wine, or is a second sort of wine made of the grapes after they have been pressed, which we call "tiff":

nor eat moist grapes or dried;
which have somewhat of the nature and taste of wine, and produce some of the like effects, and may lead to a desire after drinking it; wherefore this, as other things mentioned, are, as Aben Ezra says, a kind of an hedge, to keep at a distance from drinking wine.

Mínshùjì 6:3 In-Context

1 Yēhéhuá duì Móxī shuō ,

2 Nǐ xiǎoyù Yǐsèliè rén shuō , wúlùn nánnǚ xǔ le tèbié de yuàn , jiù shì ná xì ĕr rén de yuàn ( ná xì ĕr jiù shì guī zhǔ de yìsi xià tóng ) , yào lí sú guī Yēhéhuá .

3 Tā jiù yào yuǎn lí qīng jiǔ nóng jiǔ , yĕ bùkĕ hē shénme qīng jiǔ nóng jiǔ zuò de cù . bùkĕ hē shénme pútàozhī , yĕ bùkĕ chī xiān pútào hé gān pútào .

4 Zaì yīqiè lí sú de rìzi , fán pútàoshù shàng jié de , zì hé zhì pí suǒ zuò de wù , dōu bùkĕ chī .

5 Zaì tā yīqiè xǔyuàn lí sú de rìzi , bùkĕ yòng tì tóu dāo tì tóu , yào yóu fā liǔ cháng cháng le . tā yào shèngjié , zhídào lí sú guī Yēhéhuá de rìzi mǎn le .