And from where did they light the torches? From the Mount of Olives to Sarteva, from Sarteva to Grofina, from Grofina to Chavran, from Chavran to Beis Biltin. From Beis Biltin they did not move, but [the signaler] would wave [the torch] back and forth, up and down, until he saw the entire Diaspora before him like a mass of fire.

There was a large courtyard in Jerusalem which was called Beis Ya’azek, and there all the witnesses gathered, and the beis din interrogated them there, and made them large feasts in order that they be accustomed to come.  Originally they did not move from there all day; [then] Rabban Gamliel the Elder enacted that they should [be permitted to] walk two thousand cubits in every direction.  And not only these [witnesses], but also a midwife who comes to aid a delivery, and one who comes to rescue [people] from a fire, or from an [attacking] army, or from a [flooding] river, or from a fallen building —- they are considered like the people of the city and they have [the right to walk] two thousand cubits in every direction.