Lévitique 10:10

10 afin que vous puissiez distinguer ce qui est saint de ce qui est profane, ce qui est impur de ce qui est pur,

Lévitique 10:10 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 10:10

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy,
&c.] That being sober they might be able to distinguish between the one and the other; which a drunken man, having his mind and senses disturbed, is not capable of; as between holy and unholy persons, and between holy and unholy things; particularly, as Aben Ezra interprets it, between a sacred place and one that is common, and between a holy day and a common week day; the knowledge and memory of which may be lost through intemperance; and so that may be done in a place and on a day which ought not to be done, or that omitted on a day and in a place which ought to be done:

and between unclean and clean;
between unclean men and women, beasts and fowls, and clean ones; and between unclean things in a ceremonial sense, and those that are clean, which a man in liquor may be no judge of: hence, as the above writer observes, after this section follow laws concerning fowls clean and unclean, the purification of a woman after childbirth, the leprosy in men, garments and houses, and concerning profluvious and menstruous persons; all which the priests were to be judges of, and therefore ought to be sober.

Lévitique 10:10 In-Context

8 L'Eternel parla à Aaron, et dit:

9 Tu ne boiras ni vin, ni boisson enivrante, toi et tes fils avec toi, lorsque vous entrerez dans la tente d'assignation, de peur que vous ne mouriez: ce sera une loi perpétuelle parmi vos descendants,

10 afin que vous puissiez distinguer ce qui est saint de ce qui est profane, ce qui est impur de ce qui est pur,

11 et enseigner aux enfants d'Israël toutes les lois que l'Eternel leur a données par Moïse.

12 Moïse dit à Aaron, à Eléazar et à Ithamar, les deux fils qui restaient à Aaron: Prenez ce qui reste de l'offrande parmi les sacrifices consumés par le feu devant l'Eternel, et mangez-le sans levain près de l'autel: car c'est une chose très sainte.