Midrash for Chullin 141:27
(ויקרא יא, מ) והאוכל מנבלתה יכבס בגדיו
so a clean object that has been swallowed cannot be rendered unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., if a person swallowed a clean ring and subsequently entered a room where_ a corpse lay, the ring would not become unclean though he himself is rendered unclean; v. infra.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 14:4) "This is the beast that you may eat: the ox, the lamb of sheep, and the kid of goats, the hart, the gazelle, and the fallow deer" — whence we derive that animals (the last three) are in the category of "beast."
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