Someone who finds a corpse lying in its usual manner for the first time may remove it along with its surrounding earth. Someone who finds two [corpses] may remove them along with their sur-rounding earth. Someone who finds three [corpses] that are between four and eight cubits apart has located a district of graves. [Once it has been determined to be a district of graves,] he must search an ad-ditional area of twenty cubits. [If] he finds [even] one [grave] within twenty cubits, he must search from it an additional twenty cubits, for there is basis for concern, for if he had found [only] this [grave] initially, he would [be required to] take it along with its surrounding earth.