Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening. The contact-impurity principle applies to the closed house: anyone who enters the closed house during the inspection period becomes ritually impure until evening. The house that is being evaluated for defilement is itself a source of potential impurity for those who enter it. The impurity from entering the closed house is the until-evening variety — self-resolving, requiring no sacrifice, but real enough to be addressed before sanctuary access is resumed.

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