Leviticus 11:41–47

⁴¹‘^aNow every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten.

⁴²‘Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

⁴³‘^aDo not render ¹yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.

⁴⁴‘For ^aI am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and ^bbe holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth.

⁴⁵‘^aFor I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus ^byou shall be holy, for I am holy.’ ”

⁴⁶This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

^47ato make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.