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23 And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out from before you,[a] because they did all these things, and I detested them. 24 So[b] I said to you, “You yourselves shall take possession of their land, and I myself shall give it to you to possess it—a land flowing with milk and honey”; I am Yahweh your God, who has set you apart[c] from the nations. 25 And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or[d] with the bird or[e] with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 20:23 Literally “from your faces”
  2. Leviticus 20:24 Or “And”
  3. Leviticus 20:24 Literally “I have set you apart”
  4. Leviticus 20:25 Or “and”
  5. Leviticus 20:25 Or “and”
  6. Leviticus 20:25 Literally “to make unclean”