That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God
— John Updike
These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
— Leviticus 11:31
or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
— Leviticus 22:5
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.