43 Do not make yourselves loathsome by any swarming creature nor defile yourselves with them and so become unclean by them.
44 For I, the Lord, am your God. You shall make and keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean, then, by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.
45 Since I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt that I might be your God, you shall be holy, because I am holy.
46 This is the instruction for land animals, birds, and all the creatures that move about in the water, as well as any animal that swarms on the ground,
47 that you may distinguish between the clean and the unclean, and between creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.