Related%20passage for Oholot 8:6

שְׁתֵּי חָבִיּוֹת וּבָהֶן כִּשְׁנֵי חֲצָיֵי זֵיתִים, מֻקָּפוֹת צָמִיד פָּתִיל וּמֻנָּחוֹת בְּתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת, הֵן טְהוֹרוֹת, וְהַבַּיִת טָמֵא. נִפְתְּחָה אַחַת מֵהֶן, הִיא וְהַבַּיִת טְמֵאִים וַחֲבֶרְתָּהּ טְהוֹרָה. וְכֵן שְׁנֵי חֲדָרִים שֶׁהֵן פְּתוּחִין לַבָּיִת:

Two barrels which have two [pieces of corpse, each the size of] half an olive, which are sealed and sit inside a house, they are pure and the house is impure. If one of them was opened, it and the house are impure and the other [barrel] is pure. Similarly two rooms which are open to a house.

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