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Leviticus 11:42-44
New English Translation

42 You must not eat anything that crawls[a] on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs[b] of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable. 43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things.[c] You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them, 44 for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:42 tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.
  2. Leviticus 11:42 tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”
  3. Leviticus 11:43 tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”
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