1. There are more weighty rules for holy things, than for the
heave-offering. Because vessels may be baptized in vessels for the
heave-offering, but not for holy things. The outside and inside and handle
(are reckoned separately) for the heave-offering, but not for holy things.
He who carries that which defiles by treading upon it, may carry the
heave-offering but not the holy flesh. Treading on the garments of those
who eat the heave-offering defiles for the holy flesh. The measure of the
holy flesh is not as the measure of the heave-offering. Because for the
holy flesh one must loose his garments and dry himself, and baptize and
afterward bind them up. But in the heave-offering he can bind them up and
afterward baptize himself.
2. Vessels completed in purity must be baptized for holy things, but not
for the heave-offering. A vessel unites whatever is inside to holy things,
but not to the heave-offering. The fourth degree of legal uncleanness(363)
is disallowed in holy things, and the third degree in the heave-offering.
In the heave-offering, if one of the hands be unclean, its fellow may be
clean, but in holy things one must baptize both hands; because each
renders its fellow unclean for holy things, but not for the
heave-offering.
3. Men may eat with unwashen hands the dry meat of the heave-offering, but
not the holy flesh. The first day mourner, and he who failed in atonement,
have need of baptism for the holy flesh, but not for the heave-offering.
4. There are weighty rules for the heave-offering, because in Judah men
are credited with the purity of wine and oil during the whole year. And in
the time of wine-pressing and oil-pressing (men are credited) even for the
heave-offering. When the time for wine and oil pressing has passed over,
and a barrel of wine is brought for the heave-offering, it must not be
received. But one may let it stand over for the wine-pressing next year.
But if one said, “I put into it a quarter log of holy wine,” it is
credited. “Jugs of wine and jugs of oil which are mixed?” They are
credited in the time of wine-pressing and oil-pressing, and seventy days
before that time.
5. From Modiyith(364) and inward,(365) men are credited for the purity of
earthen vessels. From Modiyith and outward they are not credited. “How?”
“The potter, when he is selling pots, comes inward from Modiyith.” One
says, “this is the potter,” and “these the pots,” and “these the
purchasers,” “it is credited.” “When he went outward?” “It is not
credited.”
6. The tax-gatherers when they enter the house, and also the tax-gatherers
when they restore the vessels, are credited in saying, “we did not touch
them.” And in Jerusalem they are credited in holy things (that they did
not defile them), and at the time of the feast they are credited even in
the heave-offering.
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