27. And anything that walks upon its paws among any of the animals that walks on all fours—they are unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,
28. and the one who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening—they are unclean for you.
29. “ ‘And these are the unclean for you among the swarmers that swarm on the land: the weasel and the mouse and the thorn-tailed lizard according to its kind,
30. and the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon.
31. These are the unclean for you among all the swarmers; anyone who touches them at their death shall become unclean until the evening.
32. And anything on which one of them falls at their death shall become unclean: any object of wood or garment or skin or sackcloth—any object that has performed work—must be placed in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and then it shall be clean.
33. And any clay vessel into which it falls shall become unclean, and you must break it.
34. Any of the food that could be eaten on which water from such a vessel comes shall become unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk in any such vessel shall become unclean.
35. And anything on which one of their dead bodies falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken—they are unclean and shall be unclean for you.
36. Surely a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but that which touches their dead body shall become unclean.
37. And when one of their dead bodies falls on any seed for sowing, it is clean.
38. But when water is put on the seed and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you.
39. “ ‘And when one of the animals dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening.
40. And the one who eats some of its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening; and the one who carries its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
41. “ ‘And any swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
42. You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on all fours, even any with numerous feet belonging to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they are detestable.