Leviticus 11:24-40

24‘By [contact with] these you will become unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening (dusk),

25and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

26Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof, but do not have a split hoof, or which do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean.

27Also all animals that walk on their paws, among all kinds of animals that walk on four legs, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening,

28and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

29‘These also are unclean to you among the swarming things that crawl around on the ground [and multiply profusely]: the mole, the mouse, and any kind of great lizard,

30the gecko, the crocodile, the lizard, the sand reptile, and the chameleon.

31These [creatures] are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

32Also anything on which one of them falls after dying becomes unclean, whether it is an article of wood or clothing, or a skin, or a sack—any article that is used—it must be put in water, and will be unclean until the evening; then it becomes clean.

33As for any earthenware container into which any of these [crawling things] falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you shall break the container.

34Any of the food which may be eaten, but on which [unclean] water falls, shall become unclean, and any liquid that may be drunk in every container shall become unclean.

35Everything that part of their carcass falls on becomes unclean; an oven, or a small stove shall be smashed; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern (reservoir) collecting water shall be clean; but whoever touches one of these carcasses shall be unclean.

37If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean;

38but if water is put on the seed and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

39‘If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.

40And whoever eats some of its meat shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening; also whoever picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.