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Leviticus 10:9
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7 aYou shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die, bfor the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.  

Conduct Prescribed for Priests

8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying:
9 a“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,  
10 that you may adistinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,  
11 aand that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”  
12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left: a“Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings made by fire to the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; bfor it is most holy.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink - The cabalistical commentator, Baal Hatturim, and others, have supposed, from the introduction of this command here, that Aaron' s sons had sinned through excess of wine, and that they had attempted to celebrate the Divine service in a state of inebriation. Strong drink - The word shechar , from shachar , to inebriate, signifies any kind of fermented liquors. This is exactly the same prohibition that was given in the case of John Baptist, Luke 1:15 : ͅ· Wine and sikera he shall not drink. Any inebriating liquor, says St. Jerome, (Epist. AD nepot)., is called sicera, whether made of corn, apples, honey, dates, or other fruit. One of the four prohibited drinks among the Mohammedans in India is called sakar , (see the Hedaya, vol. iv., p. 158), which signifies inebriating drink in general, but especially date wine or arrack. From the original word probably we have borrowed our term cider or sider, which among us exclusively signifies the fermented juice of apples. See on Luke 1:15 (note).




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Leviticus 10:9:

Numbers 6:3
Numbers 28:7
Deuteronomy 14:26
Luke 1:15
1 Timothy 5:23

 

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