“ A SPRING THAT IS NOT NEWLY EMERGING-which is unlikely to come tearing up [the soil] ?13 — I may answer that it is necessary [to mention the latter] ; for if [the Tanna] had mentioned only the newly emerging spring I might have said that only here [where it is] for an irrigation plot it is permitted — but not for a Baal-plot,14 because it is apt to come tearing up [the soil] ; but [on the other hand] , from a spring that is not newly emerging, which is unlikely to come tearing up [the soil] , I might say that even a Baal-plot [may be watered] ”

“ For as a man be the husband [yib'al] of a maiden, so shall thy sons be as husbands unto thee22 and we render [in Aramaic] , ‘Behold as a young man settles down with a maiden, thy sons shall become settled23 in the midst of thee’. ”