Commentary for Pesachim 180:9

וכי תימא ממאי דהכי

why then did Rab say: We defile one of them with a reptile?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 80a; but an unclean majority means such as are unfit to partake of the Passover offering in the evening by Biblical law.');">¹²</span> - Rather [say] according to Rab he is not fit by Biblical law either, for it is written, If any man be unclean by reason a dead body:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. IX, 10.');">¹³</span>

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