30. the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.
31. These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.
32. Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.
33. As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.
34. Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
35. Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.
36. However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
37. Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
38. but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39. “‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
40. One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41. Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
42. You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.
43. Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
44. for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
45. for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.