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Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna, by D. A. Sola and M. J. Raphall, [1843], at sacred-texts.com


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XLIII. TREATISE BECHOROTH.

[Relates to the firstborn of human beings, and of animals. Laws founded on Exod. xiii. 12, 13; and Num. xviii. 15–18.]

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XLIV. TREATISE ERACHIN,

VALUATIONS.

[Contains laws relating to objects consecrated to Divine worship, founded on Lev. xxvii. 2; and also, to vows, founded on Lev. xxvii. 28.]

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XLV. TREATISE TAMURAH,

SUBSTITUTION.

[Contains laws relating to consecrated animals that have had others substituted in their stead, founded on Lev. xxiv. 10 and 33.]

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XLVI. TREATISE KERITOTH,

EXCISIONS.

[Relates to offences which, if wantonly committed, are punished by excision, but which, if inadvertently committed, entail the obligation to bring sin or trespass offerings.]

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XLVII. TREATISE MEHILAH,

TRESPASS.

[Contains laws relating to objects that have been consecrated and converted to profane uses, founded on Num. v. 6–8.]

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XLVIII. TREATISE TAMID,

CONTINUAL OFFERINGS.

[Contains laws relating to the daily sacrifices, founded on Exod. xxxiv. 38–42; and on Num. xxviii. 3.]

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XLIX. TREATISE MIDDOTH,

MEASUREMENTS.

[Alludes to the size and dimensions of the Temple, and its various parts; related by an eye-witness, R. Eleazar ben Jacob, assisted by Abbah Saul.]

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L. TREATISE KANIM.

[Relates to birds for sacrifices.]

Which closes Seder Kedoshim.

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‏סדר טהרות‎

LEGAL PURIFICATIONS; CONTAINS

LI. TREATISE KELIM.

[Laws relating to things liable to contract and to communicate uncleanness, founded on Lev. xi. 11–32; and Num. xix. 14, and xxxi. 20.]

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LXII. TREATISE OHOLOTH.

[Contains laws relating to uncleanness arising from a corpse, founded on Num. xix. 14.]

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LIII. TREATISE NEGAIM.

[Contains laws relating to uncleanness arising from leprosy, and other contagious diseases, founded on Lev. xiii. and xiv.]

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LIV. TREATISE PARAH.

[Has laws relating to the red heifer, founded on Num. xix.]

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LV. TREATISE TAHAROTH.

[Relates to minor impurities, according to their various degrees.]

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LVI. TREATISE MIKVAOTH.

[Contains laws that relate to diving baths for the cleansing of persons and utensils, founded on Num. xxxi. 23.]

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LVII. TREATISE NIDDAH.

[Contains precepts regulating the conduct of, and intercourse with, women, during their menses, after child-birth, and generally at their periods of separation [‏נדה‎] and uncleanness, founded on Lev. xii. 1–6; xxv. 19–31.]

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LVIII. TREATISE MAKSHEERIN.

[Relates to the laws and rules of purification, founded on Lev. xi. 36–38.]

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LIX. TREATISE ZABIM.

[Has laws relating to fluxes, founded on Lev. xv.]

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LX. TREATISE TEBUL YOM.

[Relates to purifications by ablution on the day the uncleanness has been contracted. Laws founded on Lev. xvii. 15, and xxii. 6, 7.]


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