Quoting%20commentary for Chullin 5:1

חרב הרי הוא כחלל אב הטומאה הוא לטמייה לסכין ואזל סכין וטמיתיה לבשר

[signifying that] the sword has the same degree of uncleanness as the slain person.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The general principle is that unclean matter defiles anything which comes in contact with it, and that the thing so defiled becomes unclean in a lesser degree than that which defiled it. The interpretation of this verse, however establishes the exception that where a metal comes into contact with a corpse or with one who had touched a corpse the metal assumes the same degree of uncleanness as the corpse or the person who had touched the corpse, as the case may be.');">¹</span>

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