Reference for Keritot 24:5

לא עמדתי בטומאתי אלא טבלתי

and his reply was, I was not unclean; his words are then not open to an explanation, for we cannot say he meant, I did not remain unclean but immersed, for this would convey, I immersed and indeed did eat, which statement would contradict the first assertion<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the assertion of the witnesses.');">⁴</span>

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