ber).

39 An Italian mina perhaps; a denarius. If so, the heap would be worth
about L1 17s. 6d.

40 Exod. xxxiv. 21.

41 Lev. xxiii. 10. The omer or "wave sheaf" at the Passover, and the
two wave loaves, at Pentecost, were to be made from grain grown in
the field during the Sabbatical year. It was also allowed to till
sufficient land to pay taxes.

42 Lev. xix. 23-25.

43 Grain or corn field.

44 With a pointed instrument covered with oil.

45 Linseed.

46 Rain-field means a field irrigated with rain water.

47 Some suppose the meaning to be, the permission to sprinkle with
water a "white" or corn field in which the gourds are growing.

48 The word translated "fertility" means literally "sweetness." Some
apply these words to the dung out of which the moisture has "dried
out," and it is then only reckoned as earth. Others apply them to
the ground which has lost its fertility (sweetness) for want of rain
(Job xxi. 33). The meaning is that no advantage must be gained from
it in the approaching Sabbatical year.

49 About thirty-six and one-half gallons.

_ 50 I.e._, Stones lying on the top of other stones.

51 The removal of stones "touching" the earth might loosen it, and
become a kind of cultivation.

_ 52 I.e._, From the outside of the boundary wall, as in like manner his
ears of corn might be plucked. An answer to envious remarks that he
was preparing for cultivation (Jer. Tal.).

53 Twice ploughed implies the payment of tribute when the land was
under foreign rule. Its cultivation was allowed for this purpose
during the Sabbatical year. So long as a foe could be resisted, it
was not cultivated (1 Mac. vi. 49).

54 Jer. xxix. 7.

55 A log held the contents of six eggshells.

56 A seah held about the third of a bushel.

57 Literally, "daughters of the pit." "Adam's apples," (Jer. Tal.).
Supposed to be the fruit which tempted Eve. The decision in the text
assumes that the trees began to bud in the Sabbatical year, and that
the fruit would not be ripe for three years.

58 Twelve cabs.

59 To prevent their growth.

60 "Puah, for dyeing red"(?).

61 This permission has reference to certain laws with regard to legal
cleanness.

62 Achzib; Ecdippa, near Acca.

63 Some consider this to be the Abana: others