Leviticus 10:9 (WEB)
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“Samson and Samuel drank neither wine nor strong drink, for they were children of promise, and conceived in abstinence and fasting.Aaron and the other priests when about to enter the temple, refrained from all intoxicating drink for fear they should die.” — editor's note: Lev. x. 9.
Read the whole comment“Those who serve the altar, we are told, must drink neither wine nor shechar.” — editor's note: Levit. x. 9; the word shechar occurs in the Greek text of Luke i. 15.
Read the whole comment“The priests who minister in God’s temple are forbidden to drink wine and strong drink, to keep their wits from being stupefied with drunkenness and to enable their understanding to do its duty in God’s service.” — editor's note: Lev. x. 9.
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Tertullian
“And the Lord said to Aaron: “Wine and spirituous liquor shall ye not drink, thou and thy son after thee, whenever ye shall enter the tabernacle, or ascend unto the sacrificial altar; and ye shall not die.”” — editor's note: See Lev. x. 9.
Read the whole comment“This prohibition from drink was given also to the high priest Aaron and his sons, “when they went into the holy place.”” — editor's note: Lev. x. 9.
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Cross-references · 1
Exodus 28:43 and Leviticus 10:9 share the same wording (11 words).