[Regarding] the waters of purification and the ashes of purification that are mixed together, whether they are impure or whether they are pure, they render the pure impure for purposes of touching or carrying terumah. Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri said, [regarding] waters of purification that became impure, behold, they are like wood ashes. Disqualified ashes that were put on top of the waters [of purification], whether they are fit for mixing or whether they are not fit for mixing, they render pure hands impure for purposes touching or carrying terumah. Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri says, ashes of purification that became impure, behold, they are like wood ashes.

[Regarding] anything that is susceptible to become impure with corpse-impurity, even [that which becomes] impure does not possess madaf impurity*, and whatever does not have madaf impurity for terumah does not possess madaf impurity for the purification ritual, the words of Rabbi Eliezer. It so happened with Shamaiah,* a man from Kfar Otney who had in his hand a flask full of waters of purification, and shut a door which had a key that was impure with corpse-impurity attached to it, and he came and asked Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, and he said to him, "Shamaiah, go and sprinkle your waters." And Rabbi Yehoshua says, even what which is pure possesses madaf impurity. And it so happened with Rabbi Yishmael, that he was walking after Rabbi Yehoshua, and he said to him, "One who is pure for the purification ritual, who moves a key that is pure for terumah -- what is he, impure or pure?" He said to him, "Why [would he be impure]?" He said to him, "Lest it possess old impurity*, or lest he forgot and moved something impure." [Rabbi Yehoshua then] diverted him to another topic. He said to him, "Yishmael, my brother, how do you read [the verse] 'your love is more delightful than wine'* (Songs 1:2)?" He said to him "Your (fem.) love is more delightful than wine." He said to him, "That is not so. For behold, its companion-verse (Songs 1:3) is instructive thereon: 'The fragrance of your (masc.) ointments is sweet.'" And the Sages say, that which is impure possesses madaf-impurity, and that which is pure does not possess madaf-impurity. For the impurity that they spoke about was corpse-impurity and not madaf-impurity. Rebbi says, one who is pure for the purification [ritual] who [indirectly] moves the spit or the urine of one who is pure for terumah is impure. One who [indirectly] moves his blood, behold, that one is pure. One who [indirectly] moves a sheretz or a carcass or a seminal emission, Rabbi Eliezer renders him pure, and Rabbi Yehoshua renders him impure.

A jar of purification [waters] that was placed on top of a sheretz: Rabbi Eliezer renders it pure and the Sages render it impure. To what case does this refer? To a situation where if the sheretz moved but the jar stood still, and even if a corpse or a carcass touch it from the outside, it is impure. And if it was placed on top of something that was laid upon or sat upon, or on top of an impure earthenware [vessel], it is impure. If it was placed on top of food or liquid, or on top of a Sefer Torah, Rabbi Yosei renders it pure and Rabbi Meir renders it impure. One who passes it over [the airspace of] an oven or over a carcass or over a sheretz, Rabbi Akiva renders it impure. Rabbi Akiva concedes that if the sprinkling passed over something that was laid upon or sat upon, or on top of an impure earthenware vessel, that it is pure, except for an olive's-bulk of a corpse, or from a tent [covering a corpse], in which case [the sprinkling] is impure, from above as from below.

A jug containing [ashes of] purification and a stone jug containing terumah which touched one another -- both of them are pure. With two handles -- both of them are impure. Rabbi Yehoshua says, [only] that of the [ashes of] purification is impure. A jug and a flask containing terumah that touched one another, both of them with the two handles that are on them, are pure. Rabbi Yehoshua says, that of the [ashes of] purification is impure. In what case does this apply? As to a stone [jug], but as to an earthenware [jug], all agree that as to the one containing [ashes of] purification, it is pure.

A flask containing [the waters of] purification and a flask containing terumah which touched one another -- both of them are pure. With two handles, both of them are impure. With two [wrapping] papers that are on them, they are impure. Rabbi Yehoshua says, [only] that of the [ashes of] purification is impure. This is the general rule: That Rabbi Akiva says, anything that can impart impurity to the waters of purification by touch [also] imparts impurity by carrying, and anything that cannot impart impurity by touch cannot impart impurity by carrying.