Reference for Avodah Zarah 74:5
ועל דיקרב למיתא מסאב וקרו ליה יוסף שריא: יוסף אסרא מיבעי ליה ועוד דאורייתא היא דכתיב (במדבר יט, טז) וכל אשר יגע על פני השדה בחלל חרב או במת וגו'
“And that one who comes in contact with a corpse is defiled; and they called him, ‘Yosef the permitter.’” They should have called him “Yosef the prohibiter”! Furthermore [that a corpse defiles] is from the Torah, as it is written, “And whosoever in the open field touches one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body [or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days]” (Numbers 19:16).
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