A tailor's box is [considered to be] defiled with corpse-impurity. [If] one piece was separated from it, it is impure, but two pieces, it is pure. A cradle for girls, behold, is defiled with corpse-impurity. [If] it was used for sitting, behold, it is defiled with midras-impurity. [If] they sell vessels on it, behold, it is defiled with corpse-impurity. [If] it was used for sitting or for lying upon, behold, it possesses midras-impurity. A bed whose stuffing came out and had no ropes holding it together, but there [still] remained enough [stuffing] in it for sitting or lying down, behold, it possesses midras-impurity. [If] there were lumps of upholstery coming out of it, behold, they are impure because he puts them back inside. A rope that is hanging out from the bed (Kel. 19:1): Less than five handbreadths, it is pure. From five to ten, it is impure. From ten and above, it is pure. From ten down [and five up, it is impure (see GR"A)]. [If] he sprinkled on the rope within ten handbreadths, it is pure, and when he immerses the the bed he needs to immerse ten handbreadths of the rope and it is pure. And when he immerses the bed, he needs to immerse the rope ten handbreadths.* The leg [of the bed] that was defiled with midras-impurity, and it was [then] joined to the bed: The leg is pure, and so too with the mizran*, and so too with the tooth of a mattock.

The rope that straps together the bedstead: Even if it one hundred cubits, all of it is [considered] a single joined unit. [If] he tied another rope to it: From the knot and inward, it is joined, [and] from the knot and outward, it is not connected. [If] he brought it into three houses, even one hundred cubits, all of it is a single joined unit. A rope that is tied to earthenware, even one hundred cubits, all of it is a single joined unit. [If] he tied another rope to it: From the knot and inward, it is joined, [and] from the knot and outward, it is not connected. Said Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov, in what case does this apply? Going up, but going down, even if it was tied with a knot, all of it is a single joined unit. The thread that they drew through the needle: Even if it was tied on both sides, behold, it is not [considered] joined [with the needle]. [If] it was brought (i.e., stitched) into the garment, the thread is [considered] joined with the garment and the needle is not [considered] joined with the thread. The bands and the straps that are in the wrappings* of a scroll, or that are in the swaddling of infants: [If] they are sewn in, they are [considered] joined, [and if] they are knotted, they are not [considered] joined. And those which are on the handles (lit., "ears") of earthenware vessels: Even if they are sewn in, they are not [considered] joined, for [the laws of] "joining" do not apply to earthenware vessels. The remnants [of material] (see Kel. 19:3) that are on the legs of a bed: [If] they are bound tightly, they are [considered] joined; loose, they are not [considered] joined. And those which are on the ears (alt., "in the hands" (GR"A)) of one with an unnatural flow: Even if they are bound tightly, they are not [considered] joined.

This is a stringency with midras over one with an unnatural flow: A mizran (see above) that wraps around a bed, and one brings it into a house with a corpse inside, even though there is only the smallest "tent" [over it], the bed is impure. Ropes that touch a corpse, and which were treaded upon by one with an unnatural flow, within ten handbreadths, he is impure and the bed is pure. A mizran that wraps around a bed, and a corpse touched them: They are defiled with seven-day impurity. [If] a sheretz touched them, they are defiled with evening-impurity. [If] they separate those that were defiled with evening-impurity, [and] unfit liquids touched them, those that were separated are unfit. This is the general rule: Every impurity as to which a bed and a mizran are the same, such as corpse-impurity, and an unnatural flow within ten handbreadths, they are [considered] joined for [purposes of] impurity. More than that, they are not joined. Rabbi Elazar bar Rabbi Tzadok says in the name of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel, until seven handbreadths.