to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes, which the Lord spoke to them by Moses.

They shall declare Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your law to Israel; they shall place incense in [the time of] Your wrath continually upon Your altar.

And they shall teach My people [to distinguish] between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them [the difference] between unclean and clean.

And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it. They shall rightly observe My ordinances, and judge My judgments, and keep My statutes and My commandments in all My feasts; and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.