31. Among all that creep these are the ones that are unclean to you. Whoever touches them when they are dead, will be unclean until the evening.
32. Whatever falls on them when they are dead will become unclean, whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sackcloth. Whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening, then it will be clean.
33. “Now if any of them falls into a clay pot, everything that is in it will become unclean, and you are to break it.
34. Any food that may be eaten but has water on it from such a pot will become unclean. Also any drink that may be drunk in any such pot will become unclean.
35. Everything on which part of their carcass falls will become unclean. An oven or stove for pots is to be broken in pieces. They are unclean and will be unclean to you.
36. Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern for collecting water will be clean, though anyone who touches their carcass will become unclean.
37. If part of a carcass falls on any seed for sowing that has yet to be sown, it is clean.
38. But if water is put on the seed, and part of a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39. “If any animal that you may eat dies, the one who touches its carcass will become unclean until the evening.
40. He who eats of its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. Also, the one who carries its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41. “Every creeping thing that crawls on the earth is detestable—it shall not be eaten.
42. Whatever moves on its belly or crawls on all fours or has many feet among all the creeping things that crawl on the earth, these you are not to eat, for they are detestable.
43. You are not to contaminate yourselves with any creeping thing that crawls nor make yourselves unclean with them or defiled by them.
44. “For I am Adonai your God. Therefore, sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am holy. You are not to defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
45. For I am Adonai who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Therefore, you should be holy, for I am holy.