Related%20passage for Eruvin 1:8

שַׁיָּרָא שֶׁחָנְתָה בְּבִקְעָה וְהִקִּיפוּהָ בִכְלֵי בְהֵמָה, מְטַלְטְלִין בְּתוֹכָהּ, וּבִלְבַד שֶׁיְּהֵא גָדֵר גָּבוֹהַּ עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, וְלֹא יִהְיוּ פְרָצוֹת יְתֵרוֹת עַל הַבִּנְיָן. כָּל פִּרְצָה שֶׁהִיא כְעֶשֶׂר אַמּוֹת, מֻתֶּרֶת, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהִיא כְפֶתַח. יָתֵר מִכָּאן, אָסוּר:

If a caravan encamped in a valley and it were fenced around by animal gear, it is permitted to carry therein, so long as the fence be ten tefachim high and the (composite length of the) breaches not greater than (that of) the structure. [And even if the breaches are smaller than ten (amoth), if more is breached than standing, it is not a partition, and it is forbidden (to carry) even opposite what is standing.] Every breach which is within ten amoth (in length) is permitted, being like an entrance. [This, provided that what stands is more than or equal to what is breached, in which instance there is a (valid) partition, and it is permitted to carry (even) opposite the breach.] More than that (ten amoth) is forbidden. [Even one breach larger than ten (amoth) forbids (i.e., invalidates) the entire fencing, even if what stands is more (than what is breached), for people do not make entrances larger than ten — so that it is a breach (and not an entrance). And this, only if it does not have tzurath petach ("the appearance of an entrance"); but if it does, even more than ten is (regarded as) an entrance.]

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