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40 If you eat some of the carcass you must wash your clothes and you are unclean until evening. If you pick up the carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening.
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Anyone who eats some of its carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.
41 "Creatures that crawl on the ground are detestable and not to be eaten.
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“ ‘Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten.
42 Don't eat creatures that crawl on the ground, whether on their belly or on all fours or on many feet - they are detestable.
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You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean.
43 Don't make yourselves unclean or be defiled by them, because I am your God.
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Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.
44 "Make yourselves holy for I am holy. Don't make yourselves ritually unclean by any creature that crawls on the ground.
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I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.
45 I am God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Be holy because I am holy.
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I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
46 "These are the instructions on animals, birds, fish, and creatures that crawl on the ground.
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“ ‘These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground.
47 You have to distinguish between the ritually unclean and the clean, between living creatures that can be eaten and those that cannot be eaten."
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You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.’ ”
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