Leviticus 10:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 The Lord said to Aaron: 9 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.(A) 10 You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, and between what is clean and what is unclean;[a](B)
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- 10:10 Sacred and…profane…clean and…unclean: something or someone may be either sacred or profane (i.e., ordinary, not set apart), and at the same time clean or unclean. Priests would be particularly concerned about keeping what is unclean away from the sacred.
Leviticus 10:8-10
New International Version
8 Then the Lord said to Aaron, 9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine(A) or other fermented drink(B) whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance(C) for the generations to come, 10 so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,(D)
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