Awareness of tumah is of two [types] which are [in reality] four: [If] one became tamei and was aware of it, and [afterwards] the tumah escaped his awareness, but he remembered the holy thing; [or awareness of] the holy thing escaped him, but he remembered the tumah; [or] both escaped his [awareness], and he ate holy things being unaware, and he became aware after he ate —- he is [required to bring] a variable [sin-] offering. [If] one became tamei and was aware of it, and [afterwards] the tumah escaped his awareness, but he remembered the Temple; [or awareness of] the Temple escaped him, but he remembered the tumah; [or] both of them escaped his [awareness], and he entered the Temple being unaware, and he became aware after he came out —- he is [required to bring] a variable [sin-]offering.

Both the one who enters the Courtyard and the one who enters the addition to the Courtyard [are liable]; for they do not add to the city or to the [Temple] courtyards except with a king, a prophet, the Urim V'Tumim, and a Sanhedrin of seventy-one, with two thanksgiving-offerings, and with song. The beis din walked with [the] two thanksgiving-offerings, after them, and all Israel after them. The inner one was eaten, and the outer one was burnt. Any [addition] not made with all these —- whoever enters therein is not liable for it.