25 Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated(A) by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.(B) 26 You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.(C)

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25 (A)You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [a]yourselves detestable by animal or by bird, or by anything [b]that crawls on the ground, which I have distinguished for you as unclean. 26 So you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I (B)have singled you out from the peoples to be Mine.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 20:25 Lit your souls
  2. Leviticus 20:25 Lit with which the ground crawls