Leviticus Chapter 10 verse 10 Holy Bible
and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
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And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
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that ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between unclean and clean,
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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
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And that ye may make a difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
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and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
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so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.)
