²⁹‘And this is to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind, ³⁰and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole; ³¹these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

³²‘And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean; ³³and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which any one of them falleth, all that is in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

³⁴‘Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh such water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any such vessel is unclean; ³⁵and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are, yea, unclean they are to you.

³⁶‘Only—a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean; ³⁷and when any of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown—it is clean; ³⁸and when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcase hath fallen on it—unclean it is to you.

³⁹‘And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening; ⁴⁰and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

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