Leviticus 10:9
Good News Translation
"You and your sons are not to enter the Tent of my presence after drinking wine or beer; if you do, you will die. This is a law to be kept by all your descendants.

New Revised Standard Version
Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

Contemporary English Version
When you or your sons enter the sacred tent, you must never drink beer or wine. If you do, you will die right there! This law will never change.

New American Bible
When you are to go to the tent of meeting, you and your sons are forbidden, by a perpetual statute throughout your generations, to drink any wine or strong drink, lest you die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Do not

Numbers 6:3,20 They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried. . . .

Proverbs 31:4,5 Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth: . . .

Isaiah 28:7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Jeremiah 35:5,6 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine. . . .

Ezekiel 44:21 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Timothy 3:3,8 Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but . . .

1 Timothy 5:23 Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

strong drink.

it shall be

Leviticus 3:17 By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Context
Restrictions for Priests
8The Lord also said to Aaron: 9You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:10And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:…
Cross References
Luke 1:15
For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Timothy 3:3
Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

Titus 1:7
For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Leviticus 3:17
By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 10:8
The Lord also said to Aaron:

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 31:5
And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Jeremiah 35:6
And they answered : We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your children, for ever:

Ezekiel 44:21
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Hosea 4:11
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.

Leviticus 10:8
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