Leviticus 11:41–47

⁴¹“ ‘And any swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten. ⁴²You must not eatⁿ anything that moves upon its belly or^o that walks on all fours, even any with numerous feet belonging to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they are detestable. ⁴³You must not defile yourselves with any swarmer that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by them and so be made unclean by them, ⁴⁴because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that^p you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land, ⁴⁵because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus^q you shall be holy, because I am holy.

⁴⁶“ ‘This is the regulation of the animals^r and the birds and all living creatures that move along in the water and concerning^s all the creatures that swarm on the land, ⁴⁷to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.’ ”