Leviticus 10:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 When you are to go to the tent of meeting, you and your sons are forbidden, by a perpetual statute throughout your generations, to drink any wine or strong drink, lest you die.(A) 10 You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, and between what is clean and what is unclean;[a](B) 11 and you must be able to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has given them through Moses.
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- 10:10 Sacred and…profane…clean and…unclean: something or someone may be either sacred or profane (i.e., ordinary, not set apart), and at the same time clean or unclean. Priests would be particularly concerned about keeping what is unclean away from the sacred.
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