²⁵ 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.^{(A) 26} You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.^(B)