A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean. The exception for springs and cisterns: large bodies of water that naturally dilute and cleanse are not made permanently unclean by contact with a dead unclean creature. The running spring and the large collected cistern remain clean even if a dead creature falls into them, because their volume and natural cleansing capacity prevents permanent contamination. The exception communicates the covenant's practical wisdom: the impurity regulations are designed for actual life, not theoretical purity scenarios that would render the community's water supply unusable.

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