I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

“‘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.

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.

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,

Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;