25. Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
26. “‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
27. Whatever goes on its paws, amongst all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
28. He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
29. “‘These are they which are unclean to you amongst the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
30. the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
31. These are they which are unclean to you amongst all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
32. Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
33. Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.
34. All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
35. Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36. Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37. If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
38. But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39. “‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
40. He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41. “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.