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Leviticus 11:28-42 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

28. And whoever will have carried this kind of carcass shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean until evening. For all these are unclean to you.

29. Likewise, these shall be considered among the polluted things, out of all that moves upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, each one according to its kind,

30. the shrew, and the chameleon, and the gecko, and the lizard, and the mole.

31. All these are unclean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be unclean until evening.

32. And anything upon which something from their carcasses will have fallen shall be defiled, whether it is a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins, or haircloths, or anything by which work is done. These shall be dipped in water and shall be defiled until evening, but then afterwards these shall be clean.

33. But an earthen vessel, into which something from these will fall, shall be defiled; and therefore it is to be broken.

34. Any of the foods that you eat, if water from such a vessel will have been poured upon it, it shall be unclean. And every liquid which one may drink from such a vessel shall be unclean.

35. And if anything from among these kinds of dead things has fallen upon it, it shall be unclean, whether it be an oven, or a pot with feet, these shall be unclean and shall be destroyed.

36. Yet truly, fountains and cisterns, and all reservoirs of water shall be clean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled.

37. If it falls upon seed grain, it shall not defile it.

38. But if anyone has poured water upon the seed grain, and afterwards it was touched by the carcasses, it shall be immediately defiled.

39. If any animals will have died, from which it is lawful for you to eat, whoever will have touched its carcass shall be unclean until evening.

40. And whoever will have eaten or carried anything of these shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean until evening.

41. All that creeps across the earth shall be abominable, neither shall it taken up as food.

42. Whatever advances by four feet upon the chest, or that has many feet, or that drags across the soil, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

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