24. They will make you unclean. If you touch the dead bodies of these insects, you will become unclean until evening.
25. If you pick up one of these dead insects, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.
26-27. “Some animals have split hooves, but the hooves don’t make exactly two parts. Some animals don’t chew the cud. Some animals don’t have hooves—they walk on their paws. All these animals are unclean for you. If you touch them, you will become unclean until evening.
28. If you pick up the dead bodies of these unclean animals, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.
29. “These small animals are unclean for you: moles, mice, all kinds of great lizards,
30. geckos, crocodiles, lizards, sand reptiles, and chameleons.
31. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.
32. “If any of these unclean animals dies and falls on something, that thing will become unclean. It might be something made from wood, cloth, leather, or sackcloth. Whatever it is or is used for, it must be washed with water. It will be unclean until evening. Then it will become clean again.
33. If any of these unclean animals dies and falls into a clay dish, anything in the dish will become unclean. And you must break the dish.
34. If water from the unclean clay dish touches any food, that food will become unclean. Any drink in the unclean dish will become unclean.
35. If any part of a dead, unclean animal falls on something, that thing is unclean. It may be a clay oven or a clay baking pan. It must be broken into pieces. These things will remain unclean. They will always be unclean for you.
36. “A spring or a well that collects water will remain clean, but anyone who touches the dead bodies of any unclean animal in that water will become unclean.
37. If any part of a dead, unclean animal falls on seed that is to be planted, that seed is still clean.
38. But if you put water on some seed and if any part of a dead, unclean animal falls on those seeds, they are unclean for you.
39. “Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
40. If you eat meat from this animal’s body, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening. If you pick up the dead body of the animal, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.
41. “You must treat all the crawling animals that live on the dirt as disgusting things that you must not eat.