“And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.”
Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean. The oven and the cooking pot that receive the dead unclean creature are unclean and must be broken up — the same destruction requirement as the clay pot of verse 33. The heat and porous structure of ceramic cooking vessels makes them permanently unclean once they receive a dead unclean creature inside them. The household cooking equipment that becomes contaminated must be destroyed rather than retained: the impurity-absorbing vessel cannot serve the household's food preparation after contamination.
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