If darkness overtakes a person on the road, he may give his purse to a gentile; if no gentile is with him, he may place it on the donkey. When he reaches the outermost courtyard, he may remove those objects that may be handled on the Sabbath; and [as for] those that may not be handled on the Sabbath, he may untie the ropes, and [allow] the sacks [to] fall of themselves.

We may untie bundles of straw before an animal, and we may scatter tender cedar boughs, but not triply bound bundles of straw. We may not shred neither fodder nor carobs before an animal, whether [it is] lightweight or heavyweight. R’ Yehudah permits [crushing] carobs for a lightweight [animal].

We may neither stuff a camel, nor cram it, but we may put food into its mouth. We may not fatten calves, but we may put food into their mouths. We may put food into the mouths of fowls, and we may put water into bran, but we may not knead it. We may not place water before bees or before doves that are in a dovecote, but we may place [water] before geese and chickens, and before Herodian doves.

We may cut up gourds before cattle or a carcass before dogs. R’ Yehudah says: If it was not [yet] a carcass prior to the Sabbath, it is prohibited, since it is not something that was prepared.

We may annul vows on the Sabbath, and we may seek release [from vows] for things that are necessary for the Sabbath. We may stop up a window, and we may measure a patch or a mikveh. An in-cident occurred in the days of R’ Tzaddok’s father and in the days of Abba Shaul ben Batnis, that they stopped up the window with an earthenware jug, and tied a cup with a rush to ascertain whether a vat had an aperture of a handbreadth or not. And from their words we learned that we may stop up, measure, and tie on the Sabbath.