Soncino English Talmud
Nazir
Daf 54a
Now what is meant by 'a limb [severed] from a corpse'? For if it has a bone of a barley-corn's bulk, it is [covered by the rule concerning] one who touches a bone! We must therefore suppose that it has not a bone of a barley-corn's bulk, and in spite of this the All-Merciful Law has included it [amongst the things whose contact defiles]. R. Johanan, on the other hand, will say that in point of fact [the limb severed from a corpse] has [a barley-corn's bulk of bone] in it, and if [the verse] is unnecessary for teaching [that the limb defiles by] contact, you can use it to teach [that it defiles through] carrying. AND BE SPRINKLED ON THE THIRD AND SEVENTH DAYS AND IT MAKES VOID etc.: The question was propounded: When the Mishnah teaches UNTIL HE HAS BECOME CLEAN, does it refer to the seventh day, meaning until after sunset, so that the author is R. Eliezer, or does it perhaps refer to the eighth day, the words UNTIL HE HAS BECOME CLEAN, meaning until he has brought his sacrifices, so that it gives the view of the Rabbis? — Judge from the following. Since it teaches in the subsequent [Mishnah] that he commences to count immediately [after purification], it follows that UNTIL HE HAS BECOME CLEAN in the first [Mishnah] means, until he has brought his sacrifices, and the ruling is that of the Rabbis who assert that naziriteship after purification does not operate until the eighth day. MISHNAH. BUT FOR [DEFILEMENT CAUSED BY] SEKA KOTH [OVERHANGING BOUGHS] OR PERA'OTH [PROTRUDING BRICKS] OR A [FIELD THAT IS A] BETH PERAS, OR LAND OF THE GENTILES OR THE GOLEL [COVERING STONE] OR DOFEK [SIDE STONES] OF A TOMB, OR A QUARTER [-LOG] OF BLOOD, OR A TENT [IN WHICH IS A CORPSE], OR A QUARTER [-KAB] OF BONES, OR UTENSILS THAT HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH A CORPSE, OR [THE DEFILEMENT OF A LEPER'S] TALE OF DAYS OR HIS PERIOD OF DECLARED LEPROSY; FOR ALL THESE THE NAZIRITE IS NOT REQUIRED TO POLL. HE MUST, HOWEVER, BE SPRINKLED ON THE THIRD AND SEVENTH [DAYS],
Sefaria