The stringency of terumah is [as follows]:  (a) In Judea [the ammei haaretz] are believed concerning the taharah of wine and oil throughout the year; and during the wine-pressing and olive-pressing seasons [the ammei haaretz are believed] even concerning terumah.  [If] the wine-pressing and olive-pressing [seasons] have passed, and they then brought him a barrel of wine of terumah, he should not accept it from them; but he may set it aside for the next wine-pressing season. However, if he told him: “Within it I have separated a fourth [of a log] as kodesh,” he is believed.  (b) [Concerning] jugs of wine or jugs of oil that are [still] mingled, they are believed about them during the wine-pressing and the olive-pressing season, and [even for] seventy days prior to the wine-pressing [season].

(c) From Modin inward, they are believed concerning earthenware vessels. From Modin outward, they are not believed. How so? If the potter selling the pots came inward of Modin —- regarding the very potter, the very pots, and the very purchasers —- he is believed; [but] if he left, he is not believed.

(d) Tax collectors who entered a house, and likewise thieves who returned utensils [they had stolen], are believed to say: “We did not touch [them].”  (e) In Jerusalem they are believed concerning kodesh [the entire year], and during the festival season [they are believed] even concerning terumah.

[If] one opens his barrel or begins using his dough for festival needs, R' Yehudah says: He may finish [selling after the festival]. The Sages say: He may not finish.  Once the festival was over, they would remove [everything] to facilitate the cleansing of the Temple Courtyard. If the day after the festival was Friday, they would not remove [the vessels], in deference to the honor of the Sabbath.  R' Yehudah says: Not even [if the day after the festival was] Thursday, because the Kohanim were not free.

How did they go about removing [everything] for the cleansing of the Temple Courtyard? They immersed the vessels that were in the Temple, after they had said to them: `'Be careful not to touch the Table [and the Menorah] [lest you] contaminate it.”  All the vessels that were [used] in the Tem-ple had second and third [replacement] sets so that if the first ones became contaminated, they would bring the second ones to replace them.  All the vessels that were [used] in the Temple require immersion except for the Golden Altar and the Copper Altar, because they are like earth —- these are the words of R' Eliezer. The Sages say: Because they are plated.