כוורת – that it has rims [at the bottom] and holds forty Se’ah in wet which are two KOR in dry, that it is susceptible to receive ritual defilement, and reclines on its side within the opening and part of it is outside and part of it is in the house.

ופיה לחוץ – and its rim is inside.

כזית מן המת נתון תחתיה – from outside.

כל שהוא כנגד הזית – if the olive’s bulk [of the corpse] is underneath it and vessels are on top of it opposite it, or the olive’s bulk [of the corpse] is upon it and vessels are underneath it opposite it.

תחתיה וגבה טמא – but what is within it is ritually pure. For even though the hive protects over what is within it, it does not protect on what is underneath it or on top of it opposite the olive’s bulk of defilement, for on what is within it, it is the law that it protects, for even if it is placed in the tent of a corpse it protects with a tightly-sealed cover/airtight lid, since it is not susceptible to receive ritual defilement, but what is underneath it and on its back it does not protect since it is a vessel, as is taught in the Mishnah above in Chapter 6 {Mishnah 1]: “Humans and vessels are made into tents to defile, but not to purify.”

וכל שאינו כנגד הזית תוכה והבית טהור – this is what he said: vessels that are underneath it and on top of it that are not opposite the olive’s bulk of defilement, and within it, meaning to say, vessels that are within it and even if hey are opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement], and vessels also that are in the house, everything is ritually pure.

בבית אין טמא אלא הבית – if the olive’s bulk [of defilement] is in the house, there is nothing ritually impure other than the house, but the vessels that within the hive are pure, for its mouth is towards the outside.

בתוכה הכל טמא – if the olive’s bulk [of defilement] is within the hive, everything is ritually defiled, for we are dealing with a hive which is perforated from the walls with an opening of a handbreadth, as we are required to state further on [Mishnah 3] but rather that the incisions/holes are stopped up with straw, but the closing is not fastened, and it is the manner of the holes/incisions that the defilement goes out to the house since they are not fastened, and even vessels that are under it and on top of from the outside are ritually impure, for since the olive’s bulk [of defilement] we see it as is if it is filled with defilement, and a vessel cannot protect what is underneath it or on top of it. But when the defilement is in the house, we stated above [in this Mishnah] that there is no defilement other than the house, for the defilement does not enter in the hive through the incisions/holes even though they have an opening of a handbreadth, for since they are stuffed up, but it (i.e., the defilement) does not enter through its mouth for its mouth is towards the outside.

היתה גבוהה מן הארץ טפח – that now there is a tent of a handbreadth underneath it.

הכל טמא – that it brings the defilement into the house since it is a handbreadth high, and vessels that are on top of it, even those that are not opposite the defilement are also impure and even outside, for underneath it is like one that is full of defilement. And it doesn’t protect what on top of it, for the vessel does not protect. And similarly, if the defilement is also in the house everything is ritually impure from this reason, for the tent of the house brings the defilement to what is underneath it and doesn’t protect that which is on top of it. But if the defilement is on top of it, since it doesn’t protect over what is underneath it, we view what is beneath it as one that is filled with defilement, therefore, whatever is in the house and what is underneath it and what is on top of it -everything is impure.

אלא תוכה -that is to say, everything is impure except for what is within it (i.e., the house) which is pure.

בזמן שהוא כלי – that it was not hollowed out and was not nullified from the category of being a vessel. -

מחולחלת (hollowed out – not packed entirely) – that the walls are perforated with an opening of a handbreadth. They normally make incisions in the walls of the hive in order the bees can enter and depart, and sometimes that the incisions/holes are stopped up with straw but that the stopper is not fastened tightly.

היתה פחותה (if it was damaged) – that it was broken through/hollowed out and voided from the category of a vessel.

ופקוקה בקש – in the place of the hollowing out. But its walls are complete that they are not hollowed out.

או אפוצה (or made narrower by squeezing the parts together – i.e., pressing the lid down) – or even if its walls were not complete but rather that it was made narrowed, meaning to say, that it was closed in the place where it is hollowed out/not packed entirely, and there isn’t a handbreadth of hollowed out area.

כנגדו עד התהום טמא – but all of the rest is pure. For since it is not considered a vessel like a tent to protect what is inside it and what is on top of it.

על גבה – if an olive’s bulk from a corpse is placed on top of it.

כנגדו עד הרקיע טמא – but all of the rest of pure, for it protects what is inside of it and what is below it. Since it is not a vessel.

בבית – if an olive’s bulk from the corpse is in the house.

אין טמא אלא הבית – and all of the rest is pure, for its opening/mouth is outside.

בתוכה – if the olive’s bulk from the corpse is within it (i.e., inside).

אין טמא אלא תוכה – and all the rest is pure, for the defilement does not enter into the house because it is not hollowed out and its mouth is towards the outside, and it protects also over what is underneath it and what is on top of it, since It is not a vessel.

תחתיה והבית טמא – for they bring the defilement from this (i.e., underneath the house) to that (i.e., the house).

תוכה טהור – that which is inside [the house], since the its walls are outside, and what is on top of it is also pure, for it protects on what is outside, for it is not a vessel.

בתוכה – if the defilement is within it.

אין טמא אלא תוכה – and all the rest is ritually pure.

היה פיה לפנים – that it was leaning on its side and its rims were outside and its mouth was inside. For now, we are speaking of the time when it is a hollowed-out vessel and is not higher from the ground a handbreadth. But there is no distinction whether its mouth is outside or whether its mouth is inside, but that when its mouth is outside as is taught above (i.e., Mishnah 4) regarding a house, nothing is impure other than the house, but here, when its mouth is inside, it (i.e., the Mishnah) teaches that everything is impure, because the defilement enters through its mouth.

היתה גבוהה – above (see Mishnah 1), its walls are outside as its teaches [in the Mishnah] the defilement that is under it or in the house [or on top of it, everything is impure, other than what is within it,] but here its walls are within, everything is impure.

בזמן שהוא כלי מחולחלת – freely, it (i.e., the Mishnah) took [the term] מחולחלת/hollow, loosely put in (i.e., not packed entirely) for it does not benefit being loosely put in other than its mouth being outside regarding the matter of removal of the defilement from within it to the house, but here, where its walls are inside, it (i.e., the defilement) goes out through its mouth. But since the first clause of the Mishnah taught מחולחלת/loosely put in (i.e., not packed entirely) while it is a vessel, it also took it (i.e., teaches it) here.

כנגדו עד התהום טמא – but the rest is ritually pure. And we are speaking when it is not a handbreadth high from the ground.

תוכה או בבית תוכה והבית טמאים – because its walls are inside. But above (see Mishnah 1), where its walls are outside, it is taught that the defilement is in the house, there is no impurity other than in the house, but the rest is pure.

אלא גבה – but inside is impure when the defilement is in the house, because its walls are inside. But above (see Mishnah 1), its walls are outside, its inside and on top of it are pure.

היתה ממלאה את כל הבית – for all of it (i.e., the defilement) is within the house inside and it sits on its rims and its mouth reaches the top of the beam, for there isn’t between it and the ceiling an opening of a handbreadth.

טומאה בתוכה הבית טמא אמא בבית מה שבתוכה טהור – since this resembles a pipe/gutter that is arched/bent over underneath the house, that has an opening of a handbreadth, and there isn’t in its exiting an opening of a handbreadth as is taught in the Mishnah above in Chapter 3 [Mishnah 7].

בין עומדת – that is to say, this law is in vogue/practice whether it is standing and it reaches the beams, or whether it is lying on its side and there isn’t between its mouth and the wall of the house an opening of a handbreadth.

בין אחת בין שתים – this over that and there isn’t between the second opening to the beams an opening of a handbreadth, and similarly, there isn’t between the second rim and its mouth of the first an opening of a handbreadth.

הבית טהור – that the lintel descends and seals/stops up the mouth of the hive, and we are speaking of a case where the hive is not hollowed out. For if it is hollowed out, it is the manner of the hollowing out that the defilement would go out to the house like those mentioned above.

טומאה בבית מה שבתוכה טהור – we have this reading. That the defilement goes outside and doesn’t enter in into the hive. But in most of the books we have the reading, that what is within it is impure because the defilement leaves from the house via its opening that defiles what is in the hive, and it stand within the doorway.

באויר – in the courtyard or in the garden, where there isn’t a tent there. And its law is like of the hive that is in the midst of the doorway and its mouth is outside, as it is taught in the Mishnah at the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 1). And similarly, also if it is above the ground by a handbreadth, like it is above the ground a handbreadth of here at the beginning of the chapter (see Mishnah 2). But that of here, it doesn’t belong to mention a house, for we are dealing with a case where one is standing underneath the airspace.

בזמן שהיא כלי – where it stands in the airspace it doesn’t belong to mention that which is loosely put in/hollow, and because of this, it does not teach here, “or it was made narrower by squeezing the parts together,” as is taught above (see Mishnah 3), for the issue of making it narrower by squeezing the parts together (i.e., pressing the lid down) only applies with something that is put in loosely.

או מחזקת ארבעים סאה כדברי חכמים – which is in conflict with the first Tanna/teacher as he holds that it holds forty Se’ah. When it is damaged, it is voided from the status of being like a vessel, but it protects what is underneath it and within it and above it.

כזית מן המת נתון תחתיה – its law is like it is damaged and it is not [a handbreadth] high and its mouth is towards the outside, as it is taught in the Mishnah (see Mishnah 3) above.

היתה גבוהה מן הארץ טפח – these also, its law is like that of a hive whose mouth is towards the outside and it is damaged and stuffed up [with straw] and above [the ground] a handbreadth as it is taught in the Mishnah (see Mishnah 5) above.

היתה יושבת על שוליה וכו' טומאה תחתיה או בתוכה או על גבה – everything that is on top of it. As we taught concerning the hive that is sitting on its rims and its mouth is above, that is, that the defilement overshadows outward [to it] above rom its mouth.

בוקעת ועולה – even though above (see Mishnah 11) when it is lying on its side, and the defilement is underneath it, or on top of it, it protects what is inside of it, here its wall is above for it doesn’t protect over what is outside of it [also] doesn’t protect on what is within it, since there is no interruption between the airspace that is within it to the airspace that is above and outside of it. But specifically, opposite the olive’s bulk of impurity and not from the sides, since it is damaged and is not a handbreadth above the ground, for there is no tent there to bring the defilement to the sides.

אבל היתה גבוהה טפח או מכוסה – even though it is not a handbreadth above [the ground].

או כפאה על פיה (or turned upside down on its mouth) – where there is a tent to bring the defilement.

הכל טמא – and the covering is not considered to interrupt/form a partition between the airspace within it to the airspace that is above it, and it is not similar at all to lying on its side. And specially when it is covered with an inverted vessel – divided into two vessels by the bottom between or with other vessels even though it is not susceptible to receive ritual impurity, but when it is covered by a board, even though the defilement is above it, the defilement does not break through the board, as is taught in the Mishnah above in Chapter 5 [Mishnah 6] concerning a hive which is within the house.

היתה פחותה – that it became damaged and it is voided from the category of being a vessel.

כדברי חכמים – which is in conflict with the first Tanna/teacher and compares something that holds forty Se’ah to something that is damaged and stuffed with straw.

אין טומאה עלוה לה – at the time that the defilement is below it, it does not ascend into it.

אף לא יורדת ממנה - at the time that the defilement is within it, it doesn’t descend underneath it.

תחתיה טמא – but inside it/within it and on top of it, it is pure.

כנגדו עד הרקיע טמא – but underneath it is pure.

ארון שהיא רחבה – this bier/casket is a cliff/peak of a rock that protrudes from the mountain and is hewn/chiseled into a bier that is wide from the bottom and narrow from the top and its mouth is above.

הנוגע בה מלמטה טהור – for what is opposite its mouth is considered like the bier/casket, but not that which is on the sides.

‘רחב מלמעלה וצר מלמטה – or that it was equivalent, a person who touches it from any place is impure, according to the words of Rabbi Eliezer. For the covering splits the defilement in all of it, that the defilement ascends up to the covering and returns and descends over the face of all of it.

רבי יהושע מטהר – that it is not considered like a bier/coffin other than the handbreadth that is nearest to the cavity of the bier/coffin. Therefore, it does not burst forth from a handbreadth and below.

העשויה כמין קמטרא (that is made like a chest/box – for clothes, books) – it is vessel whose covering covers the thickness of the walls. It is the Aramaic for (II Kings 10:22): “He [Jehu] said to the man in charge of the wardrobe: [“Bring out the vestments for all the worshippers of Baal],” for the one appointed over the chest/box.

הנוגע בה מכל מקום טמא – for all that is opposite the covering is impure, for its covering covers all of it.

כמין גלוסקוס הנוגע בה מכל מקום טהור – its covering is not other than opposite its cavity like a peg that is inserted in a hole/incision in an emergency.

חוץ ממקום פתחתה – with a covering that is opposite its cavity.

חבית שהיא יושבת – their jars are narrow above to the side of the their mouths, and below to the side of the rims and wide in their middles, and they are like a kind of wide stomach that protrudes from them in their middles from the outside.

באויר – that is, in the airspace of the world, to exclude that which is under the tent.

קורקורתה (rimmed bottom of a vessel – corresponding to the bottom – under or on the rim of its bottom) – like its bottom and they are its rims.

בוקעת ועולה בוקעת ויורד – and all the vessels that are opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement] are ritually impure, whether undeath it or whether above it or whether within it, something that is like the hive that is above [Mishnah 13] that sits o its rims. But that which is on the sides which is not opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement] are pure.

והחבית טמאה – not that the jar itself is impure but we are dealing here with a jar that is not susceptible to receive ritual defilement as will be proven in the concluding clause [of the Mishnah], but that the jar is impure, meaning to say, even vessels that are outside of the jar opposite the defilement are impure, because a mere vessel,its mouth is wide like the measurement of its rimmed bottom and because there is no interruption between the airspace of its inside to the airspace that is on top of it above it [and] outside of it, because it doesn’t protect what is outside of it, it doesn’t protect what is inside/within it.

תחת דופנה מבחוץ טומאה בוקעת ועולה בוקעת ויורדת – and anything that is opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement] is impure outside of the jar.

והחבית טהורה – that is, what is within the jar, even opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement] for the walls of the jar protrude in the middle and when there is an olive’s bulk [of defilement] under the wall, its wall is similar to the hive which is lying on its side, that is inside is pure, because there is an interruption between the airspace of the inside that is opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement] to the airspace that is outside of opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement].

בתוכה ותחת דופנה – that is to say inside the cavity of its wall. We call it underneath its wall, because the wall goes and becomes narrow to the side of its mouth. And this excludes on its rim that is directed corresponding/opposite to its mouth.

אם יש בדפנות פותח טפח – that the belly of jar protrudes so much outward that there is in one place up until corresponding with the mouth of the jar a cubic handbreadth.

ואם לאו – but if there isn’t there a handbreadth.

טומאה בוקעת ועולה – and it is not impure other than opposite the olive’s bulk [of defilement].

במה דברים אמורים בטהורה – with a jar that is not susceptible to receiving ritual impurity.

אבל אם היתה טמאה – as for example, a mere jar that was smelted in a kiln/furnace, which does receive defilement.

או גבוהה אן הארץ טפח או מכוסה או כפויה – and even if it is pure.

וטומאה תחתיה או בתוכה או על גבה, הכל טמא – that if it susceptible to receive ritual impurity and sits on its rims and the defilement is underneath it or within it or on top of it, even though that an earthenware vessel is not defiled from above it, the jar itself is defiled here. Since this refers to vessels that are within after they are not surrounded by a tight-fitting lid, for a vessel does not protect even on wat is ithin it other than with walls of tents in a place where there isn’t an interruption from the airspace within to the airspace outside of it. And that which is below which is under its rims, and it doesn’t teach under its wall from the outside. But the jar itself is defiled, and since the jar itself is impure, all of the vessels that are within are defiled even that which is not opposite the defilement, for even though we hold that humans and vessels are not defiled from the airspace of an earthenware vessel, here, all the while that the olive’s bulk [of defilement] is underneath it, it defiles from the reason of attachments, since after the jar itself is impure. And similarly, something a handbreadth above from the ground even that is pure we view that which is underneath it as if it filled with defilement, and even the defilement above it. But now, all of these, their law is not equivalent (i.e., the same), for if the jar is susceptible to receive ritual defilement, whatever is within it, even if it is not opposite the defilement is impure. And one who overshadows over it from above, opposite the defilement is impure, but that which is not opposite the defilement is pure. But if it is a handbreadth above the ground or it is covered or turned upside down on its mouth, one who overshadows over it even that which is not opposite the defilement is impure. And we should not be astonished, that which is turned upside downs on its mouth and the defilement is above it, whatever is within it is like the pure vessels that are surrounded with a tight-fitting lid, but it is different here for there is no open space.