A spring or a cistern where one of these dead animals is found is still clean, but anyone who touches the animal becomes unclean.
If the dead body of one of these animals touches anything else, including ovens and stoves, that thing becomes unclean and must be destroyed.
If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean.
In the future there will be a fountain, where David's descendants and the people of Jerusalem can wash away their sin and guilt.
But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give is like a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”