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Mishnah Negaim 11:3: Leather and garments that are colored do not become impure from Negaim. Houses, regardless of whether they are colored or not colored, become impure from Negaim, says Rabbi Meir. But Rabbi Yehuda says leather is like houses. Rabbi Shimon says those colored by the hands of Heaven [naturally] become impure, but by human hands do not become impure.

הָעוֹרוֹת וְהַבְּגָדִים הַצְּבוּעִים, אֵין מִטַּמְּאִין בַּנְּגָעִים. הַבָּתִּים, בֵּין צְבוּעִים בֵּין שֶׁאֵינָן צְבוּעִים, מִטַּמְּאִין בַּנְּגָעִים, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי מֵאִיר. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הָעוֹרוֹת כַּבָּתִּים. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הַצְּבוּעִים בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם, מִטַּמְּאִין. וּבִידֵי אָדָם, אֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין:

Mishnah Negaim 11:4: An article of clothing whose warp is colored and its weft is white, or its warp is white and its weft is colored, everything goes according to its appearance. Clothing becomes impure by the deepest green of the green or by the deepest red of the red. If it was deep green and spread as a deep red or a deep red and spread as a deep green, it is impure. If it changed [color] and spread or changed [color] but did not spread, it is as if it did not change. Rabbi Yehuda says, it should be examined as if in the beginning [of the Nega].

בֶּגֶד שֶׁשִּׁתְיוֹ צָבוּעַ וְעֶרְבּוֹ לָבָן, עֶרְבּוֹ צָבוּעַ וְשִׁתְיוֹ לָבָן, הַכֹּל הוֹלֵךְ אַחַר הַנִּרְאֶה. הַבְּגָדִים מִטַּמְּאִין בִּירַקְרַק שֶׁבַּיְרֻקִּים, וּבַאֲדַמְדַּם שֶׁבָּאֲדֻמִּים. הָיָה יְרַקְרַק וּפָשָׂה אֲדַמְדַּם, אֲדַמְדַּם וּפָשָׂה יְרַקְרַק, טָמֵא. נִשְׁתַּנָּה וּפָשָׂה, נִשְׁתַּנָּה וְלֹא פָשָׂה, כְּאִלּוּ לֹא נִשְׁתַּנָּה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, יֵרָאֶה בַתְּחִלָּה:

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