היתה מופרשת

[If the courtyard] was separated

from the kirah (i.e. they were not attached to each other),

when it[s rim] is as high as

three fingerbreadths,

is contract tumah by contact and airspace (it is still considered as one unit with the kirah),

less than that,

or if it was flat

it is tahor (meaning the kirah and the courtyard do not impart tumah to each other).

The pegs of a kirah (some say these served as legs on the bottom of the vessel, others say that they were on its top used to support an oversized pot),

three [pegs]

of three fingerbreadths

contract tumah by contact and airspace (they are like the kirah itself),

less than that

they are definitely tamei

and even when they are four [in number].

פרק ז משנה ה

נטל אחד מהן

If one of them [the three pegs] were removed

they contract tumah (rabbinically) by contact

and they do not contract tumah by airspace,

these are the words of Rabbi Meir;

Rabbi Shimon rules that they are tahor (even rabbinically).

If one made two [pegs],

one opposite the other (these are wider than usual, so that they do not make the kirah unstable),

they contract tumah by contact and by airspace,

these are the words of Rabbi Meir;

Rabbi Shimon rules that they are tahor.

If they [the three pegs] were higher

than three fingerbreadths,

from three fingerbreadths and down (i.e. the three fingerbreadths closest to the stove)

they contract tumah by contact and by airspace,

from three and up

they contract tumah (rabbinically) by contact

and they do not contract tumah by airspace,

these are the words of Rabbi Meir;

Rabbi Shimon rules that they are tahor.

If they stuck out from the edge (if they projected laterally away from the body of the kirah, rather than just extending vertically)

within three fingerbreadths (of the kirah)

they contract tumah (rabbinically) by contact

and they do not contract tumah by airspace,

these are the words of Rabbi Meir;

Rabbi Shimon rules that they are tahor.