20. All winged insects are unclean,
21. except those that hop.
22. You may eat locusts, crickets, or grasshoppers.
23. But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.
24-28. Whoever touches the dead bodies of the following animals will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. Whoever carries their dead bodies must wash his clothes, but he will still be unclean until evening.
29-30. Moles, rats, mice, and lizards must be considered unclean.
31. Whoever touches them or their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.
32. And if their dead bodies fall on anything, it will be unclean. This applies to any article of wood, cloth, leather, or sacking, no matter what it is used for. It shall be dipped in water, but it will remain unclean until evening.
33. And if their bodies fall into a clay pot, everything that is in it shall be unclean, and you must break the pot.
34. Any food which could normally be eaten, but on which water from such a pot has been poured, will be unclean, and anything drinkable in such a pot is unclean.
35. Anything on which the dead bodies fall is unclean; a clay stove or oven shall be broken,
36. but a spring or a cistern remains clean, although anything else that touches their dead bodies is unclean.
37. If one of them falls on seed that is going to be sown, the seed remains clean.
38. But if the seed is soaking in water and one of them falls on it, the seed is unclean.
39. If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.