[If] one says, “Good men shall bless You,” this is heresy. [If one says], “Your mercy extends [even] to a bird’s nest,” or “For goodness is Your Name remembered,” or “We give thanks; we give thanks,” he is silenced.  [If] one gives symbolic interpretations to [the prohibitions against] forbidden unions, we silence him.  [If] one says, “[The verse:] And of your children you shall not give over to Molech [means] that you shall not give of your seed to impregnate a gentile woman,” we silence him with a condemnation.

The episode of Reuben is read but not translated. The episode of Tamar [however] is read and translated. The first narration of the [Golden] Calf is read and translated; the second is read but not translated.  The priestly blessing and the episode of David and Amnon are neither read nor translated.  We do not read the [vision of the] chariot as a haftarah. R’ Yehudah, however, permits it. R’ Eliezer says: We do not read Make known to Jerusalem as a haftarah.

We may water an irrigated field during [Chol] HaMoed or during Shemittah, either from a spring that has just begun to flow or from a spring that has not just begun to flow. However, we may not water [irrigated fields], neither with rain water nor with water from a cistern; nor may we dig ditches around grapevines.

R' Elazar ben Azaryah says: We may not dig a new irrigation canal during [Chol] HaMoed or during Shemittah.  The Sages say: We may dig a new irrigation canal during Shemittah, and repair damaged ones during [Chol] HaMoed.  We may repair damaged cisterns in the public domain and clear them out. We may repair roads, and streets, and ritual baths; provide all public needs; mark graves; and even go out [to inspect the fields] for forbidden mixtures [of seeds, during Chol HaMoed].