40. He who eats of its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. Also, the one who carries its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41. “Every creeping thing that crawls on the earth is detestable—it shall not be eaten.
42. Whatever moves on its belly or crawls on all fours or has many feet among all the creeping things that crawl on the earth, these you are not to eat, for they are detestable.
43. You are not to contaminate yourselves with any creeping thing that crawls nor make yourselves unclean with them or defiled by them.
44. “For I am Adonai your God. Therefore, sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am holy. You are not to defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
45. For I am Adonai who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Therefore, you should be holy, for I am holy.
46. “This is the Torah of the animal, the bird, every living creature that moves in the waters, and every creature that creeps on the earth,
47. to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.”