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'For ^(C1)I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and ^(C2)be holy, because I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth.

'^(C1)For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; so ^(C2)you shall be holy, because I am holy.'"

This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

^(C1)to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.