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Composed: Talmudic Israel, c.190 – c.230 CE
Negaim (Plagues) belongs to the sixth order, Tahorot (Purities) and discusses the uncleanness from a corpse and its peculiar property of defling people or objects either by the latter "tenting" over the corpse, or by the corpse "tenting" over them, or by the presence of both corpse and person or object under the same roof or tent. It has nine chapters.