Leviticus 11:42-47

⁴²Don''t eat creatures that crawl on the ground, whether on their belly or on all fours or on many feet--they are detestable.

⁴³Don''t make yourselves unclean or be defiled by them, because I am your GOD.

⁴⁴"Make yourselves holy for I am holy. Don''t make yourselves ritually unclean by any creature that crawls on the ground.a

⁴⁵I am GOD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Be holy because I am holy.b

⁴⁶"These are the instructions on animals, birds, fish, and creatures that crawl on the ground.

⁴⁷You have to distinguish between the ritually unclean and the clean, between living creatures that can be eaten and those that cannot be eaten."