“And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.”
When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth. Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean. The impurity from dead ground-moving creatures extends to objects they fall on: wood, cloth, hide, and sackcloth articles that receive the dead body become unclean and must be washed in water, remaining unclean until evening. The extension of impurity from the creature to the objects they contact mirrors the extension of holiness from the altar to whatever touches it (Leviticus 6:27–28). Both holiness and impurity are communicable through contact.
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