If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot. The clay pot that receives a dead unclean creature becomes permanently unclean — it must be broken, not washed. The clay that absorbs impurity through its porous structure cannot be fully cleansed; it must be destroyed. This parallels the regulation for the clay pot used for the sin offering in Leviticus 6:28. The porous nature of clay makes it permanently impurity-absorbing when the impurity source is inside the vessel rather than merely on the outside surface. The pot must be broken because it cannot be cleansed.

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