Must

Freshly pressed grape juice, sometimes starting to ferment, used as a drink.

About Must

New wine was newly pressed grape juice, unfermented or in the initial stages of fermentation.

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Key References

Numbers 18:12

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

Proverbs 3:10

then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Matthew 9:17

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

All Scripture References (46)

Genesis (2)
Genesis 27:28

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:37

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

Numbers (1)
Numbers 18:12

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

Deuteronomy (7)
Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 11:14

then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

Deuteronomy 12:17

Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

Deuteronomy 14:23

And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Deuteronomy 18:4

You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

Judges (1)
Judges 9:13

But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

2 Kings (1)
2 Kings 18:32

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

2 Chronicles (2)
2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.

2 Chronicles 32:28

He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.

Nehemiah (5)
Nehemiah 5:11

Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

Nehemiah 10:38

A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.

Nehemiah 13:5

and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.

Nehemiah 13:12

and all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storerooms.

Psalms (1)
Psalm 4:8

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Proverbs (1)
Proverbs 3:10

then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Song of Solomon (1)
Song of Solomon 8:2

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

Isaiah (5)
Isaiah 24:7

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 36:17

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

Isaiah 65:8

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

Jeremiah (1)
Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

Hosea (6)
Hosea 2:10

And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

Hosea 4:11

to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Hosea 9:2

The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.

Joel (4)
Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:10

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

Joel 2:19

And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

Joel 2:24

The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Amos (1)
Amos 9:13

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

Micah (1)
Micah 6:15

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Haggai (1)
Haggai 1:11

I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Zechariah (1)
Zechariah 9:17

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

Matthew (1)
Matthew 9:17

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Mark (1)
Mark 2:22

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

Luke (2)
Luke 5:37

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.

Luke 5:38

Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.