Levitico 10:10

10 E ciò per poter discernere tra la cosa santa e la profana; e tra la cosa immonda e la monda;

Levitico 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.

Levitico 10:10 In-Context

8 E IL Signore parlò ad Aaronne, dicendo:

9 Non ber vino, nè cervogia, nè tu, nè i tuoi figliuoli, quando avrete ad entrar nel Tabernacolo della convenenza; acciocchè non muoiate. Sia questo uno statuto perpetuo per le vostre generazioni.

10 E ciò per poter discernere tra la cosa santa e la profana; e tra la cosa immonda e la monda;

11 e per insegnare a’ figliuoli d’Israele tutti gli statuti che il Signore ha loro dati per Mosè.

12 Poi Mosè parlò ad Aaronne, e a Eleazar, e a Itamar, suoi figliuoli, ch’erano rimasti, dicendo: Pigliate l’offerta di panatica ch’è rimasta dell’offerte fatte per fuoco al Signore, e mangiatela in pani azzimi appresso all’Altare; conciossiachè sia cosa santissima.