Leviticus 11:43

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:20

Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky.

Genesis 7:21

All creatures that moved on earth perished: birds, tame animals, wild animals, and all that teemed on the earth, as well as all humankind.

Leviticus 20:25

You, too, must set apart, then, the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean, so that you do not make yourselves detestable through any beast or bird or any creature which creeps on the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.

Leviticus 22:5

or if anyone touches any swarming creature whose uncleanness is contagious or any person whose uncleanness, of whatever kind it may be, is contagious—