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Leviticus 11:31-40 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

31. Anyone who touches their dead bodies or anything touched by their dead bodies becomes unclean until evening.

32. If something made of wood, cloth, or leather touches one of their dead bodies, it must be washed, but it is still unclean until evening.

33. If any of these animals is found dead in a clay pot, the pot must be broken to pieces, and everything in it becomes unclean.

34. If you pour water from this pot on any food, that food becomes unclean, and anything drinkable in the pot becomes unclean.

35. If the dead body of one of these animals touches anything else, including ovens and stoves, that thing becomes unclean and must be destroyed.

36. A spring or a cistern where one of these dead animals is found is still clean, but anyone who touches the animal becomes unclean.

37. If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean.

38. But seeds that are soaking in water become unclean, if the dead animal is found in the water.

39. If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening.

40. If you eat any of its meat or carry its body away, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

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