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שיהו מרעין בחורשין; ומלקטין עצים בשדותיהם; ומלקטים עשבים בכל מקום – חוץ מתלתן; וקוטמים נטיעות בכל מקום – חוץ מגרופיות של זית; ומעין היוצא בתחילה – בני העיר מסתפקין ממנו; ומחכין בימה של טבריא, ובלבד שלא יפרוס קלע ויעמיד את הספינה;
The conditions are that people should have the right to graze their animals in forests, even on private property; and that they should have the right to gather wood from each other’s fields, to be used as animal fodder; and that they should have the right to gather wild vegetation for animal fodder in any place except for a field of fenugreek; and that they should have the right to pluck off a shoot anywhere for propagation and planting, except for olive shoots; and that the people of the city should have the right to take supplies of water from a spring on private property, even from a spring that emerges for the first time; and that they should have the right to fish in the Sea of Tiberias, i.e., the Sea of Galilee, provided that the fisherman does not build an underwater fence to catch fish, thereby causing an impediment to boats.
ונפנין לאחורי הגדר, ואפילו בשדה מליאה כרכום; ומהלכים בשבילי הרשות, עד שתרד רביעה שניה; ומסתלקין לצידי הדרכים מפני יתידות הדרכים; והתועה בין הכרמים – מפסיג ועולה מפסיג ויורד; ומת מצוה קונה מקומו.
The baraita continues the list of Joshua’s 10 conditions: And people should have the right to relieve themselves outdoors behind a fence, even in a field that is full of saffron [karkom]; and they should have the right to walk in permitted paths, i.e., those paths that cut through a private field, throughout the summer until the second rainfall, when crops begin to sprout; and they should have the right to veer off to the sides of the roads onto private property because of hard protrusions [yeteidot] of the road; and one who becomes lost among the vineyards should have the right to cut down branches and enter an area of the vineyard, or cut down branches and exit an area of the vineyard, until he finds his way back to the road; and that a corpse with no one to bury it [met mitzva] acquires its place and is buried where it was found.