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Tosefta for II Chronicles 26:12

כֹּ֠ל מִסְפַּ֞ר רָאשֵׁ֤י הָאָבוֹת֙ לְגִבּ֣וֹרֵי חָ֔יִל אַלְפַּ֖יִם וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

The whole number of the heads of fathers’houses, even the mighty men of valour, was two thousand and six hundred.

Tosefta Kelim Kamma

Rabbi Menachem son of Rabbi Yosei says, cities surrounded by a wall are more holy than the Land of Israel because lepers are sent out from inside of them, and their houses are [sold in] perpetuity ("צמות", see Zar Zahav here) inside of them after twelve months, and a corpse may be carried around inside of them as long as they desire, [but once] it is taken outside [the walls], they cannot bring it back in. And thus it says (2 Chron. 26:23), "And Uzziah was laid to rest with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers, in the burial field of the kings, for they said, 'He is a leper.' And Yotam his son ruled in his place." [Returning to the theme of the previous section,] Rabbi Shimon says, just as there are no [zavim], zavot, niddot, or women after childbirth that may enter the Temple Mount, so too that which they lie on and that which they sit on [may also not enter the Temple Mount].
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