Reference for Tahorot 5:3

שְׁנֵי שְׁבִילִים, אֶחָד טָמֵא וְאֶחָד טָהוֹר, הָלַךְ בְּאַחַד מֵהֶם וְעָשָׂה טָהֳרוֹת וְנֶאֱכְלוּ, הִזָּה וְשָׁנָה וְטָבַל וְטָהַר, וְהָלַךְ בַּשֵּׁנִי וְעָשָׂה טָהֳרוֹת, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ טְהוֹרוֹת. אִם קַיָּמוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנוֹת, אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ תְּלוּיוֹת. אִם לֹא טָהַר בֵּינְתַיִם, הָרִאשׁוֹנוֹת תְּלוּיוֹת וְהַשְּׁנִיּוֹת יִשָּׂרֵפוּ:

Two paths, one impure and one pure, if someone walked down one of them and prepared pure things [i.e. pure <i>terumah</i> foods] and they were eaten, and then he [was] sprinkled [i.e. with the sanctified waters, as part of the red heifer purification process], and [then sprinkled] a second time, and he immersed and became pure, and then he walked down the second path and prepared pure things, they are pure. If the first ones still exist they are both held in suspension [and can be neither eaten nor burned]. If he did not purify [himself] in between, the first ones are in suspension and the second ones should be burned.

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