A thick coat and a thick [wood] block do not spread impurity until they are a handbreadth's space above the ground. Folded garments that are on top of one another, do not spread impurity until the top one is off of the ground by a handbreadth's space. Wooden tablets that are on top of one another do not spread impurity until the top one is above the ground by a handbreadth's space. If they were made of marble, the impurity pierces and goes up, pierces and goes down.

Wooden tablets that touch one another at their corners and they are a handbreadth's space above the ground, if there is impurity underneath one of them, one who touches the second one is impure for seven days. Vessels underneath the first one are impure but those under the second remain pure. A table does not spread impurity until it has in it a square that is a handbreadth's space.

Barrels that were resting on their bases or laying on their sides in the open air and they are touching one another by a handbreadth's space, if there is impurity under one of them, the impurity pierces and goes up, pierces and goes down. When is this the case? When they were pure, but if they were impure or above the ground by a handbreadth's space, then if there was impurity under one of them, the entire area beneath both of them is impure.

A house that was partitioned with boards or curtains from the sides or from the beams, if there was impurity in the house, vessels in the partitioned section are pure. If there was impurity in the partitioned section, vessels in the house are impure and vessels in the partitioned section, if [the section] is a handbreadth's space they are impure but if not they are pure.

If he partitioned it from the ground and there is impurity in the partitioned section, vessels in the house are impure. If there was impurity in the house, vessels in the partitioned section, if there is in their space a handbreadth by a handbreadth by a height of a handbreadth, they are pure, but if not, they are impure because the land of a house is like it down to the depths.

A house which is full of straw and there is no handbreadth's space between it and the beams, if there is impurity inside, vessels opposite the exit are impure. If there was impurity outside, vessels inside, if there is in their space a handbreadth by a handbreadth by a height of a handbreadth, they are pure, but if not they are impure. If there was between the straw and the beams a handbreadth's space, in either case they would be impure.

A house that was filled with dirt or pebbles, and was nullified, and similarly a pile of grain or a mound of pebbles, even as large as the mound of Akhan, and even if there was impurity next to the vessels, the impurity pierces and goes up, pierces and goes down.

The courtyard of a graveyard, one who stands in it is pure until it is four square cubits, says Beit Shammai. But Beit Hillel say, [it only needs to be] four square handbreadths. A beam which was made into a grave cover, whether it is standing or leaning on its side, only what is opposite the opening is impure. If he made its end into a grave cover, [one who touches it] only up to four handbreadths becomes impure, and when it is destined to be trimmed down. But Rabbi Yehuda says all of it is connected [and therefore impurifies].

A barrel which was filled with pure liquid and sealed and made into a grave cover, one who touches it becomes impure for seven days but the jar and the liquid remain pure. An animal that was made into a grave cover, one who touches it becomes impure for seven days. Rabbi Meir says, anything that is alive does not become impure because of [being made into] a cover.

One who touches a dead body and then touches vessels or one who overshadows a dead body and then touches vessels, they are impure. If he overshadowed a dead body and then overshadowed the vessels or touched a dead body and then overshadowed the vessels, they are pure. If his hands have in them a handbreadth's space, they are impure. Two houses in which are two [pieces the size of] half an olive [of dead body], if he sticks both his hands into them, if his hands have in them a handbreadth's space, he spreads impurity, but if not, he does not spread impurity.