Leviticus 20:25
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.”
נֶפֶשׁ
Life, soul, living being. Nephesh. The animating breath God places in every living creature. In animals it is the life force. In humanity it is the seat of emotion, will and identity. Every nephesh belongs to God — from the creatures in the sea to the deepest cry of the human heart.
רָמַשׂ
it creeps
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רָמַשׂ
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
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שָׁקַץ
you will make detestable
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שָׁקַץ
to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute
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