ארובה שהיא בתוך הבית (a hatchway which is in the midst of the house) - and it is uncovered to the airspace, for there is no upper chamber roof from above.

כנגד ארובה טהור (that which is opposite the hatchway) – vessels that are placed below on the ground opposite the hatchway and they see the face of the sky are ritually pure.

מלמעלן (from above) – on the garret window in the wall projecting above the flat roof.

עירב את הטומאה (he combined the defilement) – and everything is impure. The house is impure and the person who places his foot in it is also impure.

וכנגד הטומאה טמא – that the olive’s bulk [of defilement] is stretched to here and to there.

אין בארבה פותח פתח – surely it comes to tell us that with less than a handbreadth we don’t say that with defilement there is a joining/לבוד (i.e., that two solid surfaces are considered to be joined if there is a gap of less than three handbreadths between them).

נתן את רגלו – the person who sets [his foot] is pure, for it resembles something concealed concerning it, for the defilement does not enter into the tent and doesn’t leave from it with less than an opening of a handbreadth.

אם טומאה קדמה את רגלו טמא – that surely at the time when he set his foot, he overshadowed over the defilement.

ואם רגלו קדמה את הטומאה טהור – that before the defilement came, a concealed tent had already been made, and at the time that the defilement enters there is no garret window in the wall projecting above the flat roof that is open a handbreadth in order that the defilement can leave from it.

שתי רגלים זו על גב זו – of two people, and the first placed his foot on top of the garret window in the wall and the foot of the second [person] is lying on the foot of the first [person], and afterwards, the defilement enters the house underneath the garret window in the wall near the roof, and after that, the first [person] removes his leg and it is found that the foot of the second [person] is placed on the garret window, and even though this second [foot] overshadows over he defilement when the first [person] removed his foot, the second [person] is ritually pure, because the foot of the first [person] preceded the defilement. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon nor according to Rabbi Meir.

כנגד ארובה – in the garret window in the wall projecting above the flat roof that doesn’t have an opening of a handbreadth.

וכנגד הטומאה טמא – that is it overshadows over the defilement.

כדי שתחלק – that there will be in the part of uncleanness a measure in order to defile the tent, that is, that there will be in all of it two olive’s bulk or more. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

ארובות זו על גב זו – as for example, here is a garret window in the wall projecting above the flat roof between the house and the upper chamber and there is another turret window in the roof of the upper chamber directed against it, and in each of them there is an opening of a handbreadth.

בין מלמעלה – in the upper garret window/aperture in the roof looking to the ground floor.

בין מלמטה – in the lower garret window/aperture looking to the ground floor.

הכל טמא – even what is in the upper chamber. Even though he placed [his foot] in the lower part and not the upper part, for since it is something that is susceptible to receive defilement, it does not interpose before the defilement in the house, and we see it as if it is placed in the mouth of the upper garret window in the wall projecting above the flat roof and mixing/combining the defilement.

ממנו ולמטן טמא – that it became a concealed tent and everything that is within it is impure.

ממנו ולמעלן טהור – and it interposes in front of the defilement.

אין טמא אלא התחתון – for since the defilement is in the house but not opposite the garret window, the defilement does not leave/go out with less than a handbreadth [of an opening], and the upper chamber is pure even though the garret window of the upper chamber is concealed.

הכל טמא – for since the defilement is opposite the garret windows and an impure thing does not interpose, we see it as if it is placed in the mouth of the upper garret window and it combines/mixes the defilement.

ארובה – that it sees the airspace.

וקדירה נתונה תחתיה – on the ground opposite the garret window. But it is not so wide that if it rises opposite the garret window that its rims would touch the garret window, but rather it goes out and enters with wide space.

טומאה בוקעת ועולה – but the house is ritually pure, and everything that overshadows it, which is not opposite the defilement is pure. But opposite the defilement is impure, for even though an earthenware vessel is not defiled from above it, here, that the defilement bursts forth within it is also impure, even though the defilement is below it. And all that is in the pot is impure, and even that which is not opposite the defilement.

תחתיה והבית טמא – that the pot overshadows over the defilement, since it is a handbreadth higher.

תוכה וגבה טהור – that the pot interposes in front of the defilement and protects with the walls of the tents.

בתוכה או על גבה הכל טמא – within it and on top of it and below it and the house. For the defilement that is upon it bursts forth underneath it, for it is a handbreadth higher, and further it doesn’t protect since the pot is impure.

היתה נתונה – it refers to the pot.

בצד אסקופה (at the side of the lintel/threshold, lower door-sill) – that it was placed on the threshold from the outside and stretched inwards so much that if you would ascend there is from it a handbreadth underneath the lintel. And as for example, that the pot was very wide from the bottom and narrow from the top towards its mouth, for when there exists a handbreadth underneath the lintel, still all of its mouth is outside.

טומאה תחתיה – it speaks of pressed ritual impurity (i.e., when there is less than a handbreadth between the corpse and the roof or covering, and the ritual impurity passes through the roof and rises upward indefinitely).

בוקעת ועולה – but the house is pure. And for example, that the defilement is from the lintel and outward. For if it was stretched a handbreadth inside, the house is impure.

תחתיה והבית טמא – since that there is a handbreadth from it inside that brings the defilement into the house.

תוכה וגבה טהור – that it (i.e., the inside and on top of it) is protected with the wall of the house.

הכל טמא – that the pot was defiled and it doesn’t interpose. But we view the defilement as if it is beneath it and that the house is impure.

מודבקת – that the pot is not underneath the lintel at all, but rather above it joined at the side of the lintel, and the width of its joining is not a handbreadth.

אין טמא אלא תחתיה – since there isn’t a handbreadth underneath the lentil, it doesn’t bring defilement to the house, and the house, and what is within it and what is above it, all are ritually pure.