Leviticus 11:43

New International Version

Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.

Cross References

Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

Genesis 7:21

Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

Leviticus 20:25

“ ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

Leviticus 22:5

or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.