Leviticus 11:43
Good News Translation
Do not make yourselves unclean by eating any of these.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creature that swarms; you shall not defile yourselves with them, and so become unclean.

Contemporary English Version
If you eat any of them, you will become just as disgusting and unclean as they are.

New American Bible
Do not make yourselves loathsome by any swarming creature nor defile yourselves with them and so become unclean by them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

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Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

Ye shall

Leviticus 11:41,42 All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable: neither shall it be taken for meat. . . .

Leviticus 20:25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

yourselves [heb] your souls

Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
42Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable. 43Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:20
God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

Leviticus 11:42
Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

Leviticus 20:25
Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

Leviticus 11:42
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