Leviticus 20:25
Good News Translation
So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

Contemporary English Version
That's why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean--this will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.

New American Bible
You, too, must set apart, then, the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean, so that you do not make yourselves detestable through any beast or bird or any creature which creeps on the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

put difference

Leviticus 11:1-47 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 Eat not the things that are unclean. . . .

Acts 10:11-15,28 And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to the earth: . . .

Ephesians 5:7-11 Be ye not therefore partakers with them. . . .

abominable

Leviticus 11:43 Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

creepeth.

Context
Keep All My Decrees
24But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people. 25Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:26You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:21
And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Leviticus 10:10
And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

Leviticus 11:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Leviticus 11:43
Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

Deuteronomy 14:3
Eat not the things that are unclean.

Leviticus 20:24
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