And every earthen vessel. — The case, however, is different with regard to vessels made of clay and burned in the kiln.
Whereinto any of them falleth. — Better, where into aught of them falleth, that is, into which any of the aforesaid portion of a defiling carcase falls (see Leviticus 11:32). Whilst defiled vessels of other materials were made clean by water, earthen vessels, when they became defiled, had to be destroyed (see Leviticus 6:28), and their contents were rendered polluted.