Leviticus 10:9
Hebrew Bible
8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, 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. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, 10 as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 11 and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Luke 1:15
New Testament
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John. 14 Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. 16 He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.
Date: 75-85 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Despite the fact that the book of Leviticus is not frequently quoted among those from the Pentateuch by Mark, Matthew and the Lukan writings, at least one clear allusion and five explicit quotations from Leviticus are to be found in the Synoptic Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles ... Although the warning against, or the prohibition to abstain from, “wine and strong drink” occurs at several places in biblical literature, it is found only once in the book of Leviticus (10:9). The prohibition has particularly strong cultic connections and often applies to priests on duty or before entering the Tent of Meeting ... the reading of Luke 1:15, which divert from the LXX, Philo, and other texts, should be ascribed to the editorial hand of Luke himself ..."
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