9. A man shall not take anything out of a house into the street,
nor bring anything from the street into the house; and if he be in
the entry, he shall not pass anything out of it or bring anything
into it.

10. He shall not open on the Sabbath a vessel the cover of which
has been luted on.

11. A man shall not carry on his person spices, going out or
coming in on the Sabbath.

12. Within a house he shall not lift stone nor earth on the
Sabbath day.

13. The nurse shall not carry an infant in arms, going out or
coming in with it on the Sabbath.

14. A man shall not deal harshly with his slave or his maid or his
hired servant on the Sabbath.

15. A man shall not deliver cattle of their young on the Sabbath
day.

16. If a beast fall into a cistern or trap, a man shall not lift
it out on the Sabbath.

17. A man shall not pass the Sabbath in a place near the gentiles.

18. A man shall not profane the Sabbath for the sake of gain.

19. If a human being fall into a tank of water or into a place of
... no man shall fetch him up by means of a ladder or a rope or
any implement.

20. No man shall bring upon the altar on the Sabbath anything
except the Sabbath burnt-offerings, for so it is written, "aside
from your Sabbaths."

The dietary laws afford other examples of the strict rules of the
sect.(43) Fish may be eaten only if, while still alive, they have been
split open and drained of their blood; grasshoppers and locusts must be
put alive into the water or the fire (in which they are to be cooked);
honey in the comb is apparently prohibited. So, again, in a house in which
a death has occurred, fixtures, such as nails and pegs in the walls, are
unclean; and wood, stone, and dust are capable of contracting and
communicating various kinds of uncleanness (12 15-18). The sect sees in
these stricter distinctions between clean and unclean the superiority of
its ordinances over those of other Jews, whom they regard as sinfully lax.
The Pharisees are to them gross latitudinarians!

Oaths are to be taken only by the covenant and the curses of the covenant,
that is, the vows by which the members of the sect bind themselves, on
their admission to it, to live in conformity with its rule and submit to
the authority of those set over them, and the curses invoked on such as
violate these obligations.(44) Oaths by God, wheth