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.