⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your ^(A)God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and ^(B)you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

^25 (A)You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, ^(B)and you shall not make yourselves ^[a]abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as ^[b]unclean.

⁵ or ^(A)whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or ^(B)any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—