——那两所房子上头盖着一片裂开的顶棚。那顶棚若是完好的，就有「尸首之帐幕」的名分，要使巷里一切、并经窗户使两家屋里一切都成为不洁。只是那顶棚既裂了、尸首又正在那裂口底下，那裂口若有一掌或一掌以上，整条巷道与那两所房子就不成为不洁——单尸首正上方、经那裂口所及之处是不洁的。所以他们用一件瓦器把屋子的窗户堵住，免得那不洁进到屋里；又用一根长苇草把一块瓦片系上、伸进顶棚的裂口里，为要察明那顶棚上的口有没有一掌大。
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——那两所房子上头盖着一片裂开的顶棚。
and there was a cracked roofing placed atop the two houses.
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那顶棚若是完好的，就有「尸首之帐幕」的名分，要使巷里一切、并经窗户使两家屋里一切都成为不洁。
If the roofing was intact it would have the legal status of a tent over a corpse, rendering everything in the alleyway, and, through the windows, everything in the houses, ritually impure.
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只是那顶棚既裂了、尸首又正在那裂口底下，那裂口若有一掌或一掌以上，整条巷道与那两所房子就不成为不洁。
However, since the roofing was cracked and the corpse was directly beneath the opening, if the opening was the size of a handbreadth or more, the entire alleyway and the houses would not become impure.
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单尸首正上方、经那裂口所及之处是不洁的。
Only the area directly over the corpse extending through the opening is impure.
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所以他们用一件瓦器把屋子的窗户堵住，免得那不洁进到屋里；又用一根长苇草把一块瓦片系上、伸进顶棚的裂口里，为要察明那顶棚上的口有没有一掌大。
And that is the reason that they sealed the window of the house with an earthenware vessel, so that the ritual impurity would not enter the houses, and they tied an earthenware shard with a long reed-grass inserted into the opening in the roofing in order to ascertain whether or not there is an opening there in the roofing the size of a handbreadth.