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Moses and Aaron stand before Israelite households who deliberately turn away from creeping creatures on the ground and wash their hands and vessels. In the hazy distance, the route from Egypt into the wilderness leads toward the ordered sanctuary, connecting deliverance with consecrated daily life. No pyramids dominating the scene, eating insects, carcasses, blood, labels, humanoid deity, or supernatural figure.
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Leviticus 11:41-45

Called to holiness

Clean and Unclean Creatures · Leviticus 11

Story guide: Moses and Aaron stand before Israelite households who deliberately turn away from creeping creatures on the ground and wash their hands and vessels. In the hazy distance, the route from Egypt into the wilderness leads toward the ordered sanctuary, connecting deliverance with consecrated daily life. No pyramids dominating the scene, eating insects, carcasses, blood, labels, humanoid deity, or supernatural figure.

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41And every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable; it shall not be eaten.

42Anything that goes on its belly, and anything that goes on four feet, even every creature with many feet, among all the swarming things that swarm on the earth—you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

43Do not make yourselves detestable by any swarming thing that swarms, and do not make yourselves unclean by them, so that you do not become unclean by them.

44For I am Yahweh your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that moves on the earth.

45For I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God. And you shall be holy, because I am holy.

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