² Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean^(A) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

²⁷ Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy,^(A) and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in the sanctuary area.

⁵⁷ to determine when something is clean or unclean.

These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.^(A)

²⁵ “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds.^(A) Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

²⁶ Her priests do violence to my law^(A) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;^(B) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;^(C) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned^(D) among them.^(E)