Leviticus 10:10
Hebrew Bible
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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1 Chronicles 23:13
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12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all. 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were chosen on a permanent basis to consecrate the most holy items, to offer sacrifices before the Lord, to serve him, and to praise his name. 14 The descendants of Moses the man of God were considered Levites.
Date: 4th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Rhetorically, the language of holiness is used to invalidate the king’s cultic overreach. For only Aaronid priests who have been made holy through a consecration ritual are able to offer incense to Yahweh within the holy space. The ritual offering of incense, as we saw earlier, demarcates priestly privilege in P, with the death penalty for non-Aaronid violators (Numbers 16:35; 17:5). Earlier the Chronicler underscored this Aaronid prerogative by appealing to Mosaic legislation (1 Chronicles 6:34; compare also 1 Chronicles 23:13) ..."
Lewis, Theodore J.
The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity
(p. 662) Oxford University Press, 2020
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