Lev 10:8-10 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Lev 10:8-10: 10:8-10 The placement of this instruction suggests that Nadab and Abihu were under the influence of alcohol when they offered “the wrong kind of fire” (10:1 ). Priests were not to drink anything that could impair their judgment before serving in the Tabernacle. • the Lord said to Aaron: God had been communicating only to Moses, but he now accepted Aaron as the people’s representative, and he communicated directly with Aaron as well. • The word common means “secular” or “ordinary.” • ceremonially unclean ... clean: See 7:19-21 ; 11:1

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‏ Leviticus 10:8-10

Summary for Lev 10:8-10: 10:8-10 ^a The placement of this instruction suggests that Nadab and Abihu were under the influence of alcohol when they offered “the wrong kind of fire” (10:1 ^b). Priests were not to drink anything that could impair their judgment before serving in the Tabernacle.

• the Lord said to Aaron: God had been communicating only to Moses, but he now accepted Aaron as the people’s representative, and he communicated directly with Aaron as well.

• The word common means “secular” or “ordinary.”

• ceremonially unclean ... clean: See 7:19-21 ^c; 11:1–15:33 ^d.