after sundown of the day on which he had taken the ritual bath (§ 7); further details regarding the functions of the elders and the slaughtering and burning of the heifer (§§ 8–10); the ashes were divided into three parts: one part was kept in the "ḥel," the space between the wall of the Temple and the hall, and the second on the Mount of Olives, while the third was divided among the orders of priests (§ 11). Chapter 4: Circumstances which render the heifer unavailable (§§ 1–3); cases in which all who take part in the ceremony become ritually unclean; all preparations concerning the heifer must be made in the daytime (§ 4). Chapter 5: Vessels which are suitable for receiving the ashes and the water; persons entitled to throw the ashes into the water; regarding the gutter in the rock. Chapter 6: Things which render the ashes and the water unavailable. Chapter 7: Acts which, if performed between or during the drawing of the water and its admixture with the ashes, render these parts of the ceremony invalid. Chapter 8: Preservation of the water for sprinkling (§ 1); instances in which an unclean thing can not cause defilement to a human being, but a thing which has been made unclean by such an object can cause ritual impurity (§§ 2–7); different kinds of water, and which of them are suitable for the water for sprinkling. (§§ 8–11). Chapter 9: Causes which render the water for sprinkling unavailable (§§ 1–4); concerning water for sprinkling which has become unavailable (§ 5); the mixture of the ashes of the red heifer with ordinary ashes (§ 7); effects still exercised by water for sprinkling which has become unavailable (§§ 8–9). Chapter 10: How one who is pure in regard to the water for sprinkling may become defiled; how the water becomes unclean. Chapter 11: Further details regarding defilement of the water for sprinkling (§§ 1–3); difference in its effect upon those who require a ritual bath according to the Pentateuchal law, and those on whom it is obligatory according to a scribal regulation (§§ 4–5); the proper species of hyssop (comp. ), how many stalks of it must be taken, and how many stems there must be on each stalk (§§ 7–9). Chapter 12: Further details regarding the hyssop, the persons who may perform the act of sprinkling, and the cases in