Mesorat%20hashas for Gittin 31:5

רבי יהודה אומר אם היו רגליו של ראשון נוגעות במים אף השני טהור

and follows the opinion of R. Judah: For we learnt: 'If a mikweh contains exactly forty se'ahs of water and two persons bathe in it, if they both are in the water together they are both clean, but if one enters after the other has left, the first is clean but the second not'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Because the first had taken away some water on the body and thus rendered the mikweh deficient from the minimum of 40 se'ahs.] ');">⁵</span>

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