And every open vessel, which has no covering fastened upon it, is unclean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cover. Samaritan, "neither chains nor bands. "Formerly boxes were tied down. (Homer, Odyssey viii.) If the covering of any hollow vessel was off, when a corpse was present, it became unclean. (Calmet)