הֵעִיד רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן בְּתֵירָא עַל דַּם נְבֵלוֹת שֶׁהוּא טָהוֹר. הֵעִיד רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן בְּתֵירָא עַל אֵפֶר חַטָּאת שֶׁנָּגַע טָמֵא בְמִקְצָתוֹ, שֶׁטִּמֵּא אֶת כֻּלּוֹ. הוֹסִיף רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, עַל הַסֹּלֶת וְעַל הַקְּטֹרֶת וְהַלְּבוֹנָה וְהַגֶּחָלִים שֶׁנָּגַע טְבוּל יוֹם בְּמִקְצָתָם, שֶׁפָּסַל אֶת כֻּלָּם:
R. Yehudah b. Betheira testified about the blood of carrion (nevilah) that it is tahor, [and does not cause tumah, as carrion itself does, with an olive-size, but it does cause tumah with a revi'ith (one-fourth of a log of vital blood). For there is nothing but the sheretz (a creeping thing) which causes tumah with (the same quantity of) its blood as with (that of) its flesh. As to our having learned above (5:1): "The blood of neveiloth — Beth Shammai rule it tahor" — Beth Shammai ruled it tahor entirely. "And Beth Hillel ruled it tamei" — but not as (the flesh of) a neveilah, an olive-size of which is tamei, but only with a revi'ith.]
Tosefta Chagigah
Utensils [whose manufacture] is completed in purity -- even in the Temple Courtyard -- need to be immersed [in order to be fit to use] for consecrated foods, but not for Terumah. How is this? [Consecrated] flour that was mixed, and a tevul yom (i.e., one who has immersed but remains impure until sunset) touched a small [part] of it -- the whole is disqualified. [But] with Terumah, it is not [completely] disqualified; only the part that was touched. The ground does not join either consecrated foods or Terumah; [however,] the vessel joins with what is inside it for purposes of [disqualifying] consecrated foods, but not for Terumah. Consecrated foods [are rendered impure up to] the fourth degree, but Terumah [only up to] the third degree, and with Terumah, if one of his hands is rendered impure, the other remains pure, but with consecrated foods, both must be immersed as one. One does not immerse the pure one on its own and the impure one on its own, but rather immerses both of them as one.
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