36. However, a spring or a cistern for collecting water remains clean; but whoever touches such an animal’s carcass becomes unclean.
37. If any part of their carcasses falls on any sort of grain that is to be sown, it remains clean;
38. but if the grain has become moistened, it becomes unclean to you when any part of their carcasses falls on it.
39. When one of the animals that you could otherwise eat dies of itself, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening;
40. and anyone who eats any part of its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening; so also, anyone who carries its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening.
41. All the creatures that swarm on the ground are loathsome and shall not be eaten.
42. Whether it crawls on its belly, goes on all fours, or has many legs—any creature that swarms on the earth—you shall not eat them; they are loathsome.
43. Do not make yourselves loathsome by any swarming creature nor defile yourselves with them and so become unclean by them.
44. For I, the Lord, am your God. You shall make and keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean, then, by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.
45. Since I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt that I might be your God, you shall be holy, because I am holy.
46. This is the instruction for land animals, birds, and all the creatures that move about in the water, as well as any animal that swarms on the ground,