Any food you are allowed to eat that has come into contact with water and then any liquid from such a pot is poured on it becomes unclean; and any drinkable liquid in such a pot becomes unclean. The impurity of the clay pot extends to its contents: food that was in the pot and drinkable liquids in the pot are all unclean. The water that has touched the impure pot and then touches food conveys the impurity to the food. The chain of impurity transmission — from the dead creature to the pot to the water to the food — communicates the contagious nature of ritual impurity in the Levitical system. Impurity spreads through contact chains.

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