[If] these [fasts] passed and they were not answered [with rain], they must decrease commerce, construction, planting, betrothals, marriages, and greeting one another —- as [befits] people censured by the Omnipresent.  The [distinguished] individuals resume their fasting until Nissan is over. If after Nissan ended rain fell, it is a symptom of curse; as it says: Is today not the wheat harvest ...?