Leviticus 11:30-40

30 geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons.

31 Among all the swarming creatures that move on the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

32 When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. Then it will be clean [again].

33 "If any of these creatures falls into a piece of pottery, break the pottery because everything in it is unclean.

34 If water [from that pottery] touches any food, the food is unclean. Any liquid that you drink from that pottery is unclean.

35 Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

36 However, a spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean.

37 If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean.

38 But if water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you.

39 "When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.

40 Those who eat any of its dead body must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. Those who carry its dead body away will wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:30-40 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 11

This chapter treats of creatures clean and unclean, as fit or not fit to be eaten; and first of beasts, whose signs are given, Le 11:1-8 then of fishes, which are likewise described, Le 11:9-12 after that of fowls, and those that are not to be eaten are particularly named, Le 11:13-19 next of creeping things, which are distinguished into two sorts, as flying creeping things, of which those that are unclean, their carcasses are not even to be touched, as neither the carcasses of unclean beasts, Le 11:20-28 and creeping things on the earth, which defile by touching, as well as eating, and make everything unclean, upon which, being dead, they fall, Le 11:29-43 and these laws are enforced from the holiness and goodness of God, Le 11:44,45 and the chapter is concluded with a recapitulation of them, Le 11:46,47.