We may clear away even four or five baskets of straw or of produce to make room for guests or to avoid curtailment of study, but not a storehouse. We may clear away terumah that is tahor; demai; first tithe whose terumah has been separated from it; second tithe and consecrated property that have been re-deemed; and dry lupine, because it is food for the poor. But [we may] not [clear away] untithed produce; nor first tithe whose terumah has not been separated [from it]; nor second tithe nor consecrated property that have not been redeemed; nor colocasia; nor mustard. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel permits colocasia, since it is food for ravens.

Bundles of straw, bundles of twigs, and bundles of green branches, if we prepared them for animal feed, we may handle them; and if not, we may not handle them. We may invert a basket in front of chicks so that they may [use it to] climb up and down. A hen that has run away, we may push her until she enters. We may make calves and foals walk in a public domain. A woman may make her child walk. Said R’ Yehudah: When? At the time he raises one foot and puts down the other; but if he drags [his feet], it is prohibited.

We may not assist an animal in delivering its young on Yom Tov, but we may sup-port [it]. We may assist a woman in childbirth on the Sabbath; we may call a midwife from place to place for her; we may desecrate the Sabbath on her behalf; and we may tie the umbilical cord. R’ Yose says: we may even cut [it]. And all requirements of circumcision may be performed on the Sabbath.