with any creeping thing in the waters, Lev 11:10 or with anything that creeps on the land, by eating any of them; which being abominable for food, would make the eater of them so to God, he thereby breaking a command of his: neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them; by touching and bearing them, as with dead beasts, so with dead flies and the like: that ye should be defiled thereby; in a ceremonial sense.