Commentary for Pesachim 160:18

אמר רב יוסף לא לעולם בבעלים ובפסח ולמעוטי טומאת התהום דזיבה

Seeing that known uncleanness was permitted to him [who sacrifices at Passover], how much the more 'uncleanness of the deep'! Hence it must surely refer to the priest, whence it is proved that 'uncleanness of the deep' was permitted to him! - Said R'Joseph, No: After all it refers to the owners and the Passover-offering, and it excludes 'uncleanness of the deep' of gonorrhoea.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A zab (gonorrhoeist) is unclean seven days and the Passover-offering may not be offered on his behalf. Now, if the eve of Passover marks the seventh day of his uncleanness, he is in a state of a doubt; for if he does not discharge on that day he will be clean in the evening; while if he does discharge he becomes unclean for a further seven days. Thus he too is unclean with the 'uncleanness of the deep,' and R. Hiyya teaches that the headplate does not propitiate in his case and the offering must not be killed or its blood sprinkled on his behalf.');">¹⁶</span> Yet does it [the headplate] not propitiate for the 'uncleanness of the deep' of gonorrhoea?

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