# This will be

Here "This" refers back to the command for the priests to not drink wine or strong drink when they enter the tent of meeting.

# a permanent statute throughout your people's generations

See how you translated these words in [Leviticus 3:17](../03/15.md).

# to distinguish

You can start a new sentence here. "You must do this so that you will be able to distinguish"

# between the holy and the common

The nominal adjectives "the holy" and "the common" can be stated as adjectives. AT: "between what is holy and what is common" or "between what is dedicated to God and what is ordinary" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])

# between the unclean and the clean

The nominal adjectives "the unclean" and "the clean" can be stated as adjectives. AT: "between what is unclean and what is clean" or "between what God will not accept and what he will accept" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])

# the unclean

A person or thing that Yahweh has stated is unfit to touch is spoken of as if they were physically unclean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# the clean

A person or thing that Yahweh has stated is fit to touch is spoken of as if they were physically unclean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/aaron]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/wine]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/strongdrink]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tentofmeeting]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/statute]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/peoplegroup]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/generation]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/holy]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/unclean]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/clean]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/moses]]