year, because
men must not pay a debt with money of the Sabbatical year."

5. Men must not give money of the Sabbatical year to a well-digger, nor to
a bath-keeper, nor to a barber, nor to a skipper, but one may give it to a
well-digger for drink, and to all persons one may give a gratuitous
present.

6. Men may not dry figs of the Sabbatical year in the usual place, but one
may dry them in a waste place. They must not tread grapes in a wine-press,
but they may tread them in a kneading-trough. And they must not put olives
into the oil-press with the stone over them, but they may pound them and
put them into a small press. Rabbi Simon said, "one may also grind them in
the house of the oil-press and put them into the small press."

7. Men must not boil greens of the Sabbatical year in oil of the
heave-offering, lest they take it for uses that are forbidden. R. Simon
"allowed it." And the very last thing (in a series of exchanges) partakes
of the laws of the Sabbatical year; but the fruit itself (first exchanged)
is forbidden.

8. Men must not buy servants, ground, or an unclean beast, with money of
the Sabbatical year; but if they buy them, they must eat(74) as much as
their value. They must not bring for an offering the two pigeons of one
with an issue, or the two pigeons after childbirth bought with money of
the Sabbatical year. And if they bring them, they must eat(75) as much as
their value. They must not anoint vessels with oil of the Sabbatical year.
But if they anoint them, they must eat(76) as much as their value.

9. "A skin which one anointed with oil of the Sabbatical year?" Rabbi
Eleazar said, "it must be burned." But the Sages say, "one must eat(77) as
much as its value." The Sages said before Rabbi Akiba it was a saying of
Rabbi Eleazar, "a skin smeared with oil of the Sabbatical year must be
burned." He said to them, "Hush! I cannot tell you what Rabbi Eleazar said
about it."

10. And again, the Sages said in his presence, it was a saying of Rabbi
Eleazar,(78) "he who eats the bread of Samaritans is as one who eats
swine-flesh." He said to them, "Hush! I cannot tell you what Rabbi Eleazar
said about it."

11. "A bath which was heated with stubble or straw of the Sabbatical
year?" "It is allowed to wash in it." "But if one confer honor (on the
bath)?" "He should not wash in it."

Chapter IX

1. The rue, and the sorrel with spreading leaves, and the wild savory, the
coriander of the mountain