R’ Yehudah said: R’ Yishmael posed a question to R’ Yehoshua while they were traveling. He said to him: Why did they prohibit the cheeses of the idolaters? He answered him: Because they curdle it with the rennet of an unslaughtered carcass. He said to him: Is not the rennet of a burnt-offering more strictly forbidden than the rennet of an unslaughtered carcass? Yet they said: A Kohen who is not fastidious may gulp it raw! And [though] they did not agree with him, nevertheless, [even] they said: One may not benefit, but one does not commit me’ilah. He then answered him: Because they curdle it with the rennet of calves sacrificed to idols. He said to him: If so, why did they not prohibit it for all benefit? He [then] diverted him to another matter. He said to him: Yishmael, my brother, how do you read [the verse]: “ki tovim dodecha miyayin,” or “ki tovim dodayich . . .”? He replied: “ki tovim dodayich . . .” Said he to him: It is not so, as its fellow verse demonstrates regarding it —- “le’re’ach shemanecha tovim.”

These items of idolaters are prohibited, but their prohibition is not a prohibition against all benefit: milk that a gentile milked without a Jew watching him (lit., and a Jew does not see him), and [their] bread, and oil —- Rabbi and his court permitted the oil —- and cooked foods, and preserves into which they are accustomed to put wine and vinegar, and minced taris, and brine which does not have kilbis-fish floating in it, and the chilak, and a grain of chiltis, and salkontis-salt; these are prohibited, but their prohibition is not a prohibition against all benefit.

These are permitted to be eaten: milk that an idolater milked while a Jew was watching him, and honey, and honeycombs even though they are dripping —- [and] they do not qualify as a beverage in regard to susceptibility [to tumah]; and preserves into which they are not accustomed to put wine and vinegar, and taris which is not minced, and brine which has in it [kilbis-] fish, and a leaf of chiltis, and cakes of softened olives. R’ Yose says: Those with pits ready to fall out are prohibited.  Locusts which come from the [shopkeeper’s] basket are prohibited, [while those] from the storage area are permitted; and the same applies to terumah.

All images are prohibited, because they are worshiped once a year; [these are] the words of R’ Meir. But the Sages say: None is prohibited, except one that has in its hand a staff, or a bird, or a sphere. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Any one that has anything in its hand.