“‘If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty—if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground) and they are unaware that they have become unclean, but then they come to realize their guilt;

Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’”

There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.

“‘Of the animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

“‘Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten.

You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean.

I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.

“‘These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground.

He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.

“‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.