Midrash for Chullin 70:7
ואי אמרת
Surely we have learnt: If [an 'am ha-arez] said: 'I have set aside in this [barrel of terumah w<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This being a frequent and common source of uncleanness, greater precaution is therefore necessary with regard to consecrated things, so that clothes which are deemed clean for terumah may yet be deemed unclean for consecrated purposes.');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"On the earth shall you spill it as water": Just as it is permitted to derive benefit from water, it is permitted to derive benefit from blood — Just as water renders seed susceptible (of incurring tumah), so, blood. Just as water need not be covered, so blood (that of a disqualified offering which has been slaughtered) need not be covered.
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