Commentary for Yevamot 148:3

וממאי דהאי עד אשר יטהר עד דאיכא הערב שמש אימא עד דמייתי כפרה

perhaps it means, 'until the atonement is brought'? — This cannot be entertained. For a Tanna of the school of R. Ishmael [taught] that Scripture<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 4. ');">⁷</span> speaks of a <i>zab</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. ');">⁹</span> who noticed only two issues, and of a leper while under observation,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a locked-up leper'. V. Lev. XIII, 4ff. ');">¹⁰</span> both being cases similar to that of one who is unclean by the dead;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 4. ');">⁷</span>

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