Lévitique 10:10

10 Afin que vous puissiez discerner entre ce qui est saint et ce qui est profane, entre ce qui est souillé et 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 Puis l'Éternel parla à Aaron, en disant:

9 Tu ne boiras ni vin ni boisson enivrante, toi et tes fils avec toi, quand vous entrerez dans le tabernacle d'assignation, de peur que vous ne mouriez; c'est une ordonnance perpétuelle dans vos générations,

10 Afin que vous puissiez discerner entre ce qui est saint et ce qui est profane, entre ce qui est souillé et ce qui est pur,

11 Et enseigner aux enfants d'Israël toutes les ordonnances que l'Éternel leur a prescrites par Moïse.

12 Et Moïse dit à Aaron, et à Éléazar et à Ithamar, les fils qui lui restaient: Prenez le reste de l'offrande des sacrifices faits par le feu à l'Éternel, et mangez-le sans levain près de l'autel; car c'est une chose très sainte.