Leviticus 11:24–40

²⁴“ ‘You will make yourselves unclean by these;^h whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.^{i 25}Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes,^j and they will be unclean till evening.^k

²⁶“ ‘Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean. ²⁷Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. ²⁸Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.^l These animals are unclean for you.

²⁹“ ‘Of the animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you:^m the weasel, the rat,ⁿ any kind of great lizard, ³⁰the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon. ³¹Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. ³²When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth.^o Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean. ³³If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot.^{p 34}Any food you are allowed to eat that has come into contact with water from any such pot is unclean, and any liquid that is drunk from such a pot is unclean. ³⁵Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean. ³⁶A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean. ³⁷If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. ³⁸But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

³⁹“ ‘If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies,^q anyone who touches its carcass^r will be unclean till evening. ⁴⁰Anyone who eats some of its carcass^s must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.^t Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.