39. “Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
40. If you eat meat from this animal’s body, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening. If you pick up the dead body of the animal, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.
41. “You must treat all the crawling animals that live on the dirt as disgusting things that you must not eat.
42. You must not eat any of the reptiles that crawl on their bellies or that walk on all four feet or that have many feet. Don’t eat these animals!
43. Don’t let them make you filthy. You must not become unclean,
44. because I am the Lord your God. I am holy, so you should keep yourselves holy. Don’t make yourselves unclean with these crawling things.
45. I, the Lord, brought you out of Egypt so that you could be my special people and I could be your God. I am holy, so you must be holy too.”
46. These are the rules about all the tame animals, birds, all the animals in the sea, and all the animals that crawl on the ground.
47. These rules will help the people know which animals are unclean and which animals they are allowed to eat and which ones they cannot eat.