; and contrariwise if it happened so in the close of the
Sabbatical year, they are allowed."

4. "From what time may men buy greens at the close of the Sabbatical
year?" "From the time that similar young ones are produced. If the earlier
ones are prematurely ripened, than the later ones are allowed." Rabbi(64)
allowed greens to be bought off-hand at the close of the Sabbatical year.

5. Men must not export oil(65) which is only to be burned, nor fruits of
the Sabbatical year, from the land to lands abroad. Said Rabbi Simon, "I
expressly heard that they may be exported to Syria, but that they must not
be exported to lands abroad."

6. Men must not import a heave-offering from abroad into the land. Said
Rabbi Simon, "I expressly heard that they may import it from Syria, but
that they must not import it from lands abroad."

Chapter VII

1. The Sages stated an important rule: "In the Sabbatical year, everything
eaten by man and eaten by beast, and a kind of dye-stuff, and whatever
cannot remain in the ground, to them the laws of the Sabbatical year
apply, and to their value the laws of the Sabbatical year apply. They are
to be cleared off from being private property, and their price is to be
cleared off from being private property."(66) "And which are these?" "The
leaves of the deceitful scallion, and the leaves of mint, succory, and
cresses, and the leek, and the milk-flower."(67) "And what is eaten by
beasts?" "Thorns and thistles and a kind of dye-stuff, sprouts of indigo
and madder. To them the laws of the Sabbatical year apply, and to their
price the laws of the Sabbatical year apply. They are to be cleared off
from being private property, and their price is to be cleared off from
being private property."

2. And again, the Sages stated another rule: "All which is not eaten by
man nor eaten by beasts, and a kind of dye-stuff, and whatever remains in
the ground, to them the laws of the Sabbatical year apply, and to their
price the laws of the Sabbatical year apply, but they are not to be
cleared off from being private property, nor is their price to be cleared
off from being private property." "And which are these?" "The root of the
deceitful scallion, and the root of the mint, and scorpion grass,(68) and
the bulbs of the milk-flower, and the spikenard, and a kind of dye-stuff,
the dye-plant, and the wormwood,--to them the laws of the Sabbatical year
apply, and to their price the laws of the Sabbatical year a