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Nevertheless a spring or a cistern, in which there is plenty of water, shall be clean, but whatever touches any such carcass becomes unclean.
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And if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it remains clean.
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But if water is put on the seed, and if a part of any such carcass falls on it, it becomes unclean to you.
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'And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.
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He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
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'And every creeping thing that creeps on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
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Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth--these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.
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You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.
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For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
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'This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
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to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.' "