Leviticus20:25

Translation

Therefore you must make a distinction between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean ones, and you must not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by any kind of living thing that creeps

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along the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Paraphrase

For this reason you must distinguish between animals I have not isolated from you and animals I have isolated from you, between birds I have not isolated from you and those that I have isolated from you; you must not make yourselves repulsive to the Lord by associating with one of these animals, or birds or creatures that are hard to catch because of how they glide over the ground which I have separated from you and called “isolated.”

Footnotes

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This word is usually translated “creep” but it seems to have more to do with gliding or swarming, hence I have rendered it in the paraphrase as ”creatures that are hard to catch because of how they glide over the ground.”