Leviticus 11:41–47

⁴¹‘And every creeping thing that creeps on the earth shall be ⁸an abomination. It shall not be eaten. ⁴²Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination. ^43qYou shall not make ⁹yourselves ¹abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them. ⁴⁴For I am the Lord your ^rGod. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and ^syou shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth. ^45tFor I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. ^uYou shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

⁴⁶‘This is the law ²of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, ^47vto distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.’ ”