Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes. The more intensive contact with the closed house — sleeping or eating in it — requires the cloth-washing that accompanies more intensive contact with other sources of impurity. The graduated response — entering requires only the until-evening impurity; sleeping or eating in the house requires cloth-washing — communicates the same proportional logic that governs all the impurity-contact regulations.

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