Mishnah for Oholot 3:4

כֵּיצַד. הַמֵּת מִבַּחוּץ וּשְׂעָרוֹ בִפְנִים, הַבַּיִת טָמֵא. עֶצֶם שֶׁיֵּשׁ עָלָיו כַּזַּיִת בָּשָׂר, הִכְנִיס מִקְצָתוֹ מִבִּפְנִים וְהַבַּיִת מַאֲהִיל עָלָיו, טָמֵא. שְׁנֵי עֲצָמוֹת וַעֲלֵיהֶן כִּשְׁנֵי חֲצָאֵי זֵיתִים בָּשָׂר, הִכְנִיס מִקְצָתָם מִבִּפְנִים וְהַבַּיִת מַאֲהִיל עֲלֵיהֶם, טָמֵא. הָיוּ תְחוּבִים בִּידֵי אָדָם, טָהוֹר, שֶׁאֵין חִבּוּרֵי אָדָם חִבּוּר:

How so? If the dead body is outside and its hair is inside, the house is impure. A bone that has an olive's volume of flesh on it, if he brought part of it inside and the house overshadows it, [the house] is impure. Two bones that have two half-olive volumes on them and he brought part of them inside and the house overshadows them, it is impure. If they were stuck together by human work it is pure because the connection of a person does not count as a connection.

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