Talmud for Tahorot 4:4

כַּזַּיִת מִן הַמֵּת בְּפִי הָעוֹרֵב, סָפֵק הֶאֱהִיל עַל הָאָדָם וְעַל הַכֵּלִים בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָּחִיד, סְפֵק אָדָם, טָמֵא, סְפֵק כֵּלִים, טָהוֹר. הַמְמַלֵּא בַעֲשָׂרָה דְלָיִים וְנִמְצָא שֶׁרֶץ בְּאַחַד מֵהֶן, הוּא טָמֵא וְכֻלָּן טְהוֹרִין. הַמְעָרֶה מִכְּלִי לִכְלִי וְנִמְצָא שֶׁרֶץ בַּתַּחְתּוֹן, הָעֶלְיוֹן טָהוֹר:

If there is an olive's volume of corpse in the mouth of a raven, and it is uncertain if it was in an enclosed space over a person or over vessels in a private domain [which would have rendered them impure], the person's uncertainly is impure [i.e. the purity status of the person is uncertain, and therefore impure]; the vessels' uncertainty is pure [i.e. their purity status is uncertain, and therefore pure]. If one is filling ten buckets [from a well] and a vermin is found in one of them, it [the bucket in which it was found] is impure, and they [the rest] are all pure. One who pours from one vessel to another and a vermin was found in the lower one, the upper one is pure.

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