A major rule was stated concerning the seventh [year]: Whatever is reserved for human consumption may not be made into a plaster for a person, and surely not for an animal. Whatever is not reserved for human consumption may be made into a plaster for a person, but not for an animal. Whatever is reserved neither for human consumption nor animal consumption — [if] he intended it for human consumption and animal consumption, we apply to it the stringencies of both human [food] and animal [food]; [if] he intended it for [use as] wood then it is [treated] as wood; for example, the savory, the hyssop, and the oregano.

Seventh [-year produce] was given [to be used] for eating, drinking, and anointing; to eat that which it is customary to eat, and to anoint [with] that with which it is customary to anoint. One may not anoint with wine or vinegar but one may anoint with oil. So too with terumah and maaser sheni. Greater leniency is applied to seventh [-year produce] than to them in that it may be used for kindling a lamp.

One may not sell seventh [-year] produce either by measure, by weight, or by number; nor figs by number, nor vegetables by weight. Beis Shammai say: Not even [in] bunches. But Beis Hillel say: That which is customarily tied [in bunches] for the house may be tied for the market, for example, leeks and the milky blossom.

. [If] someone says to a worker, ‘‘Here is an issar for you, pick vegetables for me today,’’ his earnings are permissible. [But if one said,] ‘‘Pick vegetables for me today in return for it,‘‘ his earnings are prohibited. [If] one took a loaf worth a pundyon from a baker [and said], ‘‘When I pick field vegetables I will bring you [some],’’ it is permissible. But if he took from him as usual, he may not pay him with seventh [-year] money, for one may not repay a debt with seventh [-year] money.