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.
35. Anything on which a part of these animals’ dead bodies might fall will be unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it must be destroyed; they are unclean for you and must remain that way.
36. Now, a spring or cistern that collects water is clean, but anyone who touches one of these animals’ dead bodies in it will be unclean.
37. If any part of these animals’ dead bodies falls on seed that is to be planted, the seed is still clean.