全卷开篇密释纳:节中日与安息年都可以浇灌水田,无论用新涌出的泉水,还是早已流淌的泉水;但不可用积存的雨水或桔槔打上来的水浇灌,因为太费力。
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节中日和安息年,都可以浇灌需要灌溉的水田:无论是用节期中才开始流出的新涌泉水,还是用不是新涌、已流淌了一段时日的泉水。
One may irrigate a field that requires irrigation on the intermediate days of a Festival as well as during the Sabbatical Year, both from a newly emerged spring that began to flow only during the Festival, and from a spring that did not just emerge and that has been flowing for some time.
「需要灌溉的水田」原文 בֵּית הַשְּׁלָחִין(直译「灌溉之地」),即本地雨水不足、须引水浇灌的田;本卷统一作「水田」。
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但不可用积存在水窖里的雨水浇灌田地,因为那样做太费力;也不可用桔槔打上来的水浇灌——那是一种借杠杆把水桶从深井里提上来的器具。
However, one may not irrigate a field with rainwater collected in a cistern, a procedure that requires excessive exertion, or with water drawn with a shadoof [kilon], a lever used to raise water with a bucket from deep down in a well.
桔槔:原文 קִילוֹן,即桔槔一类的汲水杠杆。