Rabbi Yehoshua the son of Beteira testified about the blood of [an improperly slaughtered] carcass that it was pure. Rabbi Shimon the son of Beteira testified about [the ashes of a red heifer, biblically referred to as] the sin-offering, a little of which came in contact with something impure, that it causes the entire [batch of ashes] to become impure. Rabbi Akiva added: About fine flour, the incense, the frankincense, and the coals, a little of which came into contact with a tevul yom [one who has already immersed in a ritual bath but is waiting for the sun to set to become fully pure]: he invalidates them all.

Rabbi Yehudah the son of Bava and Rabbi Yehudah the Priest testified about a minor daughter of an Israelite [i.e. a non-priest] who married a priest: that she may eat the terumah [the portion given to the priests] as soon as they enter the wedding canopy, even if they have not yet consummated [the marriage]. Rabbi Yosi the Priest and Rabbi Zachariah the son of Haktzav testified about the baby girl who had been taken as collateral in Ashkelon [to gentiles], and her family members distance [themselves from her, thus preventing her from marrying], and witnesses testify that she was never secluded [with the gentiles] and that she was not defiled [by the gentiles]. The Sages said to them: If you believe that she was taken as collateral, then you [should] believe you that she was neither secluded [with] nor defiled [by the gentiles]. If you do not believe that she was not secluded [with] and not defiled [by the gentiles], then you [should not] believe that she was taken as collateral.

Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Yehudah the son of Beteira testified about the widow of a man from a possibly illegitimate lineage: that she was fit for marrying a priest, and that those from a possibly illegitimate lineage are considered fit [to declare who is] pure and impure, [who] to bring close and [who] to distance. Rabban Shimon the son of Gamliel said: We have accepted your testimony, but what shall we do, for Rabbi Yochanan the son of Zakkai has decreed for courts to not be commissioned for this [i.e. for the widow of a man from a possibly illegitimate lineage to marry a priest]! The priests would listen to you on whom to distance, but not whom to bring close.

Rabbi Yosi the son of Yoezer, leader of Tzereda, testified about the ayil-locust: that it is pure. And about liquid in the slaughterhouse [of the Temple]: that it is pure. And about one who touches a dead body: he is impure. And they used to call him "Yosi the Permitter."

Rabbi Akiva testified in the name of Nechemiah leader of Bet Dali, that a woman may remarry based on one witness [who confirms that her husband has died]. Rabbi Yehoshua testified about bones that were found in a wood-shed [of the Temple] that the Sages said: One may gather bone by bone, and it [i.e. the Temple and the things inside it] is all [still] pure.

Rabbi Eliezer said: I heard that when they built the Temple they made curtains for the Temple, and curtains for the courtyard [to demarcate where they were going to build the walls]. But the Temple was built from the outside [of the curtain border], while the courtyard was built from the inside [of the curtain border]. Rabbi Yehoshua said: I heard that we may sacrifice even without the Temple and eat the holy sacrifices even though there are no curtains, and [eat] the regular sacrifices and second tithes even though there is no wall [surrounding Jerusalem] because the first sanctification sanctified [the area] for its time and for the time to come.

Rabbi Yehoshua said: I have a tradition from Rabbi Yochanan the son of Zakkai, who heard it from his teacher, and his teacher from his teacher - a law to Moses from Sinai! - that Eliyahu will not come to declare people pure or impure, to distance [i.e. make impure] people or to bring [into purity those who are declared impure], but rather to distance those who were brought near by force, and to bring close those who were distanced by force. The family Bet Tzreifa was across the Jordan, and Ben Tzion distanced them by force, and someone else was there and Ben Tzion brought them close by force. [It is cases] such as these [that] Eliyahu is coming to declare pure and impure, to bring near and to distance. Rabbi Yehudah says: to bring [people] close, but not to [make people] distant. Rabbi Shimon says: to resolve arguments. The Sages say: He will not come to make distant or to bring close, but to make peace in the world, as it says "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet [before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD]. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers" (Malachi 3:23-24).