Leviticus 10:10
New International Version
so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,

New Living Translation
You must distinguish between what is sacred and what is common, between what is ceremonially unclean and what is clean.

English Standard Version
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

Berean Standard Bible
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

King James Bible
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

New King James Version
that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,

New American Standard Bible
and to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

NASB 1995
and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

NASB 1977
and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

Legacy Standard Bible
and so as to separate between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

Amplified Bible
and to make a distinction and recognize a difference between the holy (sacred) and the common (profane), and between the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean;

Christian Standard Bible
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,

American Standard Version
and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That you will distinguish between holiness and pollution, and between the unclean and the pure;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

Contemporary English Version
You must learn the difference between what is holy and what isn't holy and between the clean and the unclean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

English Revised Version
and that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Teach them the difference between what is holy and what is unholy, what is clean and what is unclean.

Good News Translation
You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.

International Standard Version
You are to differentiate between what's sacred and common and between what's unclean and clean.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Literal Standard Version
so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

Majority Standard Bible
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

New American Bible
You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, and between what is clean and what is unclean;

NET Bible
as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

New Revised Standard Version
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

New Heart English Bible
and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Webster's Bible Translation
And that ye may make a difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

World English Bible
You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

Young's Literal Translation
so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

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Context
Restrictions for Priests
9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come. 10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, 11so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”…

Cross References
Leviticus 11:47
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.'"

Leviticus 13:43
The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

Leviticus 20:25
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 44:23
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.


Treasury of Scripture

And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Deuteronomy 24:8
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

2 Chronicles 17:9
And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

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Leviticus 10
1. Aadab and Abihu, for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire
6. Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them
8. The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle
12. The law of eating the holy things
16. Aaron's excuse for transgressing thereof














(10) And that ye may put difference.--The motive here assigned for their abstinence from intoxicating liquor is, that by keeping sober they might be able to discriminate between the legal and illegal points in the prescribed observances, which required the greatest care. Thus, for instance, the rules as to which places and days and sundry portions of the offerings were holy or common, or as to holy fire and common fire, which Nadab and Abihu violated; or about ceremonially clean and unclean men, women, animals, and utensils. (See Ezekiel 44:23.)

Verse 10. - Wine and other intoxicating liquors (שֵׁכר, whence the Greek word σίκερα, Luke 1:13, was made from dates, or barley, or honey) are forbidden to the priests during their ministrations, that they may pat a difference between holy and unholy; that is, that their minds may not be confused, but be capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, what ought and what ought not to be done. Nadab and Abihu, on the contrary, had not distinguished between the sacred and profane fire, or between God's commands and their own unregulated impulses. If they had partaken too freely of the wine provided for the drink offerings, their sin would be similar to that of the Corinthians in their abuse of the Lord's Supper. As to the use of wine by the minister of God under the New Testament, see 1 Timothy 3:2, 8; 1 Timothy 5:23. The spiritual emotion, which, in the service of God, shows itself in pouring out the feelings in "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs," is contrasted, in Ephesians 5:18, 19, with the physical excitement caused by wine, the former being commended and the latter forbidden.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must distinguish
וּֽלֲהַבְדִּ֔יל (ū·lă·haḇ·dîl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 914: To be divided, separate

between
בֵּ֥ין (bên)
Preposition
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

the holy
הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ (haq·qō·ḏeš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

and the common,
הַחֹ֑ל (ha·ḥōl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2455: Profaneness, commonness

between
וּבֵ֥ין (ū·ḇên)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

the clean
הַטָּהֽוֹר׃ (haṭ·ṭā·hō·wr)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure

and the unclean,
הַטָּמֵ֖א (haṭ·ṭā·mê)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2931: Unclean


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