Common English Bible

Leviticus 11:28-34 Common English Bible (CEB)

28. Anyone who carries one of their dead bodies must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening; these animals are unclean for you.

29. The following are unclean for you among the small creatures that move about on the ground: the rat, the mouse, any kind of large lizard,

30. the gecko, the spotted lizard, the lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

31. Of all small moving creatures, these are unclean for you—anyone who touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

32. Moreover, anything on which one of these creatures falls when it is dead will be unclean, whether it is wood, cloth, skin, or funeral clothing—any such item that can be used to do work. It must be put into water and will be unclean until evening. Then it will be clean again.

33. If any of these creatures fall into a pottery jar, everything inside it will be unclean; you must smash the pot.

34. If water from such a jar gets on any edible food, it will be unclean; any drinkable beverage in such a jar will be unclean.