All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.

I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.