A person may borrow pitchers of wine or pitchers of oil from his friend, provided he does not say to him: ’‘Lend me.’’ In the same manner, a woman [may borrow] loaves [of bread] from her friend. If he does not trust him, he may leave his cloak with him and make a reckoning with him after the Sabbath. So too, in Jerusalem, [when] the day before Passover falls out on the Sabbath, he may leave his cloak with him, take his pesach offering, and make a reckoning with him after Yom Tov.

A person may count his guests and desserts orally, but not from a written note. And he may cast lots with his children and the members of his household [for portions] at the table, provided he does not intend to wager a large portion against a small portion, because of [the prohibition of] gambling. And [Kohanim] may cast lots for sacrifices on Yom Tov, but not for portions.

A person may not hire workers on the Sabbath, nor may a person tell his friend to hire workers for him. We may not [go to] await nightfall at the [Sabbath] boundary for the purpose of hiring workers or bringing produce, but one may await nightfall [to enable him] to watch, and bring produce in his hand. Abba Shaul stated a general rule: Whatever I am permitted to instruct [on the Sabbath], I am permitted to await nightfall for it.

We may await nightfall at the [Sabbath] boundary to attend to the affairs of a bride; or to the affairs of the deceased, [viz.,] to bring a coffin and shrouds for him. If a gentile brought flutes on the Sabbath, a Jew may not bewail with them, unless they came from a nearby place. If they made a coffin for him or dug a grave for him, a Jew may be interred in it; but if [it was done] for a Jew, he may never be interred in it.

We may attend to all the necessities of the deceased: We may anoint and rinse him, provided we do not move any of his limbs; we may pull the pillow from under him and lay him on the sand in order that [his body] keep; we may bind up the jaw, not that it should close, but that it should not [open any] further. So, too, [with] a beam that broke, we may support it with a bench or with the side-pieces of a bed, not that it should be raised, but that it should not [sag any] further. We may not close the eyes of the dead on the Sabbath, nor [may we do so] on a weekday at the moment of death, [for] whoever closes the eyes [of a dying person] at the moment of death is a murderer.