Leviticus 10:9
Context10:9 “Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, 1
Leviticus 19:19
Context19:19 You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, 2 you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear 3 a garment made of two different kinds of fabric. 4
1 tn Heb “a perpetual statute for your generations”; NAB “a perpetual ordinance”; NRSV “a statute forever”; NLT “a permanent law.” The Hebrew grammar here suggests that the last portion of v. 9 functions as both a conclusion to v. 9 and an introduction to vv. 10-11. It is a pivot clause, as it were. Thus, it was a “perpetual statute” to not drink alcoholic beverages when ministering in the tabernacle, but it was also a “perpetual statue” to distinguish between holy and profane and unclean and clean (v. 10) as well as to teach the children of Israel all such statutes (v. 11).
2 tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”
3 tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”
4 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.