Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.
The earliest records of prohibition of alcohol date to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. Yu the Great, the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the kingdom. It was legalized again after his death, during the reign of his son Qi. Another record was in the Code of Hammurabi (ca.1772 BCE) specifically banning the selling of beer for money. It could only be bartered for barley: “If a beer seller do not receive barley as the price for beer, but if she receive money or make the beer a measure smaller than the barley measure received, they shall throw her into the water.”
In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from moralistic convictions of pietistic Protestants. Prohibition movements in the West coincided with the advent of women’s suffrage, with newly empowered women as part of the political process strongly supporting policies that curbed alcohol consumption.
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Bible reference(s): Genesis 9:21, Genesis 9:24, Genesis 14:18, Genesis 19:32, Genesis 19:33, Genesis 19:34, Genesis 19:35, Genesis 27:25, Genesis 27:28, Genesis 27:37, Genesis 49:11, Genesis 49:12, Exodus 29:40, Leviticus 10:9, Leviticus 23:13, Numbers 6:3, Numbers 6:20, Numbers 15:5, Numbers 15:7, Numbers 15:10, Numbers 18:12, Numbers 18:27, Numbers 18:30, Numbers 28:7, Numbers 28:14, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 15:14, Deuteronomy 16:13, Deuteronomy 18:4, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:51, Deuteronomy 29:6, Deuteronomy 32:14, Deuteronomy 32:33, Deuteronomy 32:38, Deuteronomy 33:28, Judges 6:11, Judges 7:25, Judges 9:13, Judges 13:4, Judges 13:7, Judges 13:14, Judges 19:19, Ruth 2:14, 1 Samuel 1:14, 1 Samuel 1:15, 1 Samuel 1:24, 1 Samuel 10:3, 1 Samuel 16:20, 1 Samuel 25:18, 1 Samuel 25:37, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Kings 6:27, 2 Kings 18:32, 1 Chronicles 9:29, 1 Chronicles 12:40, 1 Chronicles 27:27, 2 Chronicles 2:10, 2 Chronicles 2:15, 2 Chronicles 11:11, 2 Chronicles 31:5, 2 Chronicles 32:28, Ezra 6:9, Ezra 7:22, Nehemiah 2:1, Nehemiah 5:11, Nehemiah 5:15, Nehemiah 5:18, Nehemiah 8:10, Nehemiah 10:37, Nehemiah 10:39, Nehemiah 13:5, Nehemiah 13:12, Nehemiah 13:15, Esther 1:7, Esther 1:10, Esther 5:6, Esther 7:2, Esther 7:8, Job 1:13, Job 1:18, Job 24:11, Job 32:19, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 60:3, Psalms 75:8, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 104:15, Proverbs 3:10, Proverbs 4:17, Proverbs 9:2, Proverbs 9:5, Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 21:17, Proverbs 23:30, Proverbs 23:31, Proverbs 31:4, Proverbs 31:6, Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Ecclesiastes 10:19, Song of Solomon 1:2, Song of Solomon 1:4, Song of Solomon 4:10, Song of Solomon 5:1, Song of Solomon 7:2, Song of Solomon 7:9, Song of Solomon 8:2, Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 5:2, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:22, Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 22:13, Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 24:9, Isaiah 24:11, Isaiah 25:6, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:7, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 36:17, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 51:21, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:12, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 63:2, Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 65:8, Isaiah 65:11, Jeremiah 13:12, Jeremiah 23:9, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 31:12, Jeremiah 35:2, Jeremiah 35:5, Jeremiah 35:6, Jeremiah 35:8, Jeremiah 35:14, Jeremiah 40:10, Jeremiah 40:12, Jeremiah 48:33, Jeremiah 51:7, Lamentations 1:15, Lamentations 2:12, Ezekiel 27:18, Ezekiel 27:19, Ezekiel 44:21, Daniel 1:5, Daniel 1:8, Daniel 1:16, Daniel 5:1, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:4, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 10:3, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:9, Hosea 2:22, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 7:5, Hosea 7:14, Hosea 9:2, Hosea 9:4, Hosea 14:7, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:10, Joel 2:19, Joel 2:24, Joel 3:3, Joel 3:13, Joel 3:18, Amos 2:8, Amos 2:12, Amos 5:11, Amos 6:6, Amos 9:13, Amos 9:14, Micah 2:11, Micah 6:15, Habakkuk 2:5, Zephaniah 1:13, Haggai 1:11, Haggai 2:12, Zechariah 9:15, Zechariah 9:17, Zechariah 10:7, Zechariah 14:10, Matthew 9:17, Matthew 21:33, Matthew 27:34, Mark 2:22, Mark 12:1, Mark 15:23, Luke 1:15, Luke 5:37, Luke 5:38, Luke 5:39, Luke 7:33, Luke 10:34, John 2:3, John 2:9, John 2:10, John 4:46, Acts 2:13, Romans 14:21, Ephesians 5:18, 1 Timothy 3:8, 1 Timothy 5:23, Revelation 6:6, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 14:19, Revelation 14:20, Revelation 17:2, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:13, Revelation 19:15, Tobit 4:15, Judith 10:5, Judith 11:13, Judith 12:1, Judith 12:13, Judith 12:20, Judith 13:2, Wisdom of Solomon 2:7, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 9:9, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 9:10, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 19:2, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:25, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:26, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:27, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:28, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:29, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 31:31, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 32:5, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 32:6, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 33:16, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 40:20, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 49:1, Bel and the Dragon 1:3, Bel and the Dragon 1:11, 2 Maccabees 15:39, 3 Maccabees 5:2, 3 Maccabees 5:10, 3 Maccabees 5:45, 1 Esdras 3:10, 1 Esdras 3:17, 1 Esdras 3:18, 1 Esdras 3:23, 1 Esdras 3:24, 1 Esdras 4:14, 1 Esdras 4:16, 1 Esdras 4:37, 1 Esdras 6:30, 1 Esdras 8:20, 2 Esdras 9:24
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