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Conduct Prescribed for Priests

8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying:
9 a“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,  
10 that you may adistinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,  
11 aand that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”  
12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left: a“Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings made by fire to the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; bfor it is most holy.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Leviticus 10:10

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.




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