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Leviticus 11:32
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30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the sand reptile, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
31 These are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever atouches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.  
32 Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be1 unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, ait must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.  
33 Any aearthen vessel into which any of them falls byou shall break; and whatever is in it shall be unclean:  
34 in such a vessel, any edible food upon which water falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.
35 And everything on which a part of any such carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken down; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern, in which there is plenty of water, shall be clean, but whatever touches any such carcass becomes unclean.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Leviticus 11:31-35

whosoever doth touch them, when . . . dead, shall be unclean until the even—These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where venomous reptiles often creep into houses and are found lurking in boxes, vessels, or holes in the wall; and the carcass of one of them, or a dead mouse, mole, lizard, or other unclean animal, might be inadvertently touched by the hand, or fall on clothes, skin bottles, or any article of common domestic use. By connecting, therefore, the touch of such creatures with ceremonial defilement, which required immediately to be removed, an effectual means was taken to prevent the bad effects of venom and all unclean or noxious matter.


 
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