SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:10
y esto para poder discernir entre lo santo y lo profano, y entre lo inmundo y lo limpio;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:10
Verse 10. That we may put difference between holy and unholy] This is a strong reason why they should drink no inebriating liquor, that their understanding being clear, and their judgment correct, they might be always able to discern between the clean and the unclean, and ever pronounce righteous judgment. Injunctions similar to this were found among the Egyptians, Carthaginians, and Greeks. Indeed, common sense itself shows that neither a drunkard nor a sot should ever be suffered to minister in holy things.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-11 - Do not drink wine or strong drink. During the time they ministered, the priests were forbidden it. It is required of gospel ministers, tha they be not given to wine, 1Ti 3:3. It is, Lest ye die; die when ye ar in drink. The danger of death, to which we are continually exposed should engage all to be sober.
Original Hebrew
ולהבדיל 914 בין 996 הקדשׁ 6944 ובין 996 החל 2455 ובין 996 הטמא 2931 ובין 996 הטהור׃ 2889
