Reference for Berakhot 38:16

(במדבר ו, ז) ולאחותו מה תלמוד לומר הרי שהיה הולך לשחוט את פסחו ולמול את בנו ושמע שמת לו מת יכול יחזור ויטמא אמרת לא יטמא

[It is written,] "Or for his sister" (Num. vi. 7). What has this teaching to tell us ? Supposing he were on his way to sacrifice the Paschal lamb or circumcise his son, and he heard that one of his relatives had died, it is possible [to think] that he should turn back and render himself unclean ; say, then, he shall not make himself unclean.

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