All communal and individual offerings may come either from the Land [of Israel] or from outside the Land, either from the new [crop] or from the old, except for the omer and the shtei halechem, which may come only from the new [crop] and from the Land. All of them come only from choice [produce]. Which is choice? Michmas and Mezonichah are the preferred areas for fine flour. Chafarayim in the valley is second to them. All lands are valid, but they would bring from these.

We do not bring either from a fertilized field, or from an irrigated field, or from a field of trees; but if one brought, it is valid. How does one do it? He plows it the first year, and in the second he plants it seventy days prior to Passover, and it produces fine flour in abundance. How does one check it? The treasurer inserts his hand into it. [If] dust comes up in it, it is unfit until he sifts it. If it becomes wormy, it is unfit.

Tekoah is the preferred area for the oil. Abba Shaul says: Second to it is Regev beyond the Jordan. All lands are valid, but they would bring from these. We do not bring either from a fertilized field, or from an irrigated field, or from those [trees] between which vegetation grew; but if one brought, it is valid. We do not bring from unripe olives, and if one did, it is invalid. We do not bring from oliveberries which were soaked in water, nor from the preserved, nor from the stewed; if one did, it is invalid.

There are three [categories of] olives, each with three oils. The first olive — he picks it from the top of the olive tree, and pounds and places [it] in the basket. R’ Yehudah says: Around the basket. This is the first. He presses with the beam — R’ Yehudah says: With stones — this is the second. He again grinds and presses [them]; this is the third. The first is for the menorah and the rest is for minchah-offerings. The second olive — he picks it from the rooftop and pounds and places [it] in the basket. R’ Yehudah says: Around the basket. This is the first. He presses with the beam — R’ Yehudah says: With stones — this is the second. He again grinds and presses [them]; this is the third. The first is for the menorah and the rest is for minchah-offerings. The third olive — he packs it inside the house until it decays and he takes it up and dries it atop the roof, and pounds and places [it] into the basket. R’ Yehudah says: Around the basket. This is the first. He presses with the beam — R’ Yehudah says: With stones — this is the second. He again grinds and presses [them]; this is the third. The first is for the menorah and the rest is for minchah-offerings.