We may save [enough] food for three meals; what is fit for people [may be saved] for people, what is fit for animals [may be saved] for animals. How so? If a fire broke out on the Sabbath eve, we may save [only enough] food for three meals; if during the morning, we may save [only enough] food for two meals; if in the afternoon, [we may save only enough] food for one meal. R’ Yose says: We may always save [enough] food for three meals.

We may save a basket full of loaves — even though there is [enough] in it for one hundred meals — or a round cake of pressed figs, or a barrel of wine. And one may say to others, ‘‘Come and save for yourselves.’’ If they were discerning, they would make a reckoning with him after the Sabbath. To where may they take them for safety? To a courtyard provided with an eruv. Ben Beseira says: Even to one not provided with an eruv.