Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 50:13

אמר רבא אמר קרא (במדבר לא, כד) וכבסתם בגדיכם ביום השביעי כל טמאות שאתם מטמאין במת לא יהו פחותין משבעה

The <i>Gezerah shawah</i> is thus 'free' in both texts. Still this would again be only in accordance with the view maintaining<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Yeb. 78b. ');">³²</span> that when an inference is made by means of reasoning [from an analogy] the subject of the inference is placed back on its own basis.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Becoming subject to the specific laws applicable to its own category. [So here mats in the tent of a corpse, though derived by analogy from reptiles, are subject to the laws of defilement by corpses. i.e., a defilement of 7 days.] ');">³³</span> But according to the view that when an inference is made [by means of an analogy] the subject of the inference must be placed on a par with the other in all respects, how can you establish the law [that mats kept in the tent of a corpse become defiled for seven days,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Usual in defilements through a corpse; cf. Num. XIX, 11-16. ');">³⁴</span>

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