Today's daf is sponsored by Sylvia Klein in loving memory of her father, Sherman Israel Klein, Shnayor Yisrael ben Yerachmiel v'Sara, on his yahrzeit. "May his neshama have an aliyah."
Rav Sheshet answered Rav Acha that a kohen who served while in a state of impurity does not receive the punishment of death by the hands of God. After they challenged him from our Mishna, they brought two more challenges against him. They resolved one of them, but the final challenge remained unresolved because they quoted a braita where it explicitly states that a priest who served in a state of impurity is liable to the punishment of death by the hands of God.
The braita mentioned various other cases where someone would receive the punishment of death by the hands of God. The Gemara goes through each case and finds the source in the Torah for each matter.
