21 For thine indiscretion thou shalt be mulcted in forty shekels of silver; and if thou payest not upon the nail, then shalt thou be cast into prison, there to remain during fourteen days.
22 And because he was a wise man when the morning was come, therefore he paid up; and he returned unto his home much chastened. And from that day forth he put all strong drink away from him, wherefore he was called Tam-ed, which signifieth, One that hath been through it.
23 ¶ Now when the harvest was ripe, and there were no labourers in the fields for to gather it in, the husbandmen that were on the land became cast down and they did make them an outcry.
24 And certain women approached unto them, and said, Wherefore are ye cast down, ye wealthy men of the fields?
25 Behold, we and our sisters will gather in the standing corn, and in the winter we will prepare the ground for the crops that are to be.
26 And because it is not in them to be otherwise, therefore the husbandmen changed not their countenances that were woeful; but they said unto the women,
27 Forget ye not that ye are what ye are. Nevertheless, because ye say it, therefore it shall be so. First shall ye reap the harvest, and afterwards shall ye do the other things whereof ye speak.
28 And so the women laboured all day in the fields. And they did take them cooling drinks amongst the corn when the sun was high, and they did eat cream that was rich unto yellowness, and also pasties in abundance. Nevertheless, when night was come they did sleep; neither did the things that they had eaten lie heavy upon their stomachs.
29 And so the harvest was gathered in and there was much rejoicing because of it. But amongst the husbandmen there was only foreboding, for such do never rejoice.
30 And when the cold of the year was come, the husbandmen spake unto the women, saying, Now is the time when ye shall go forth to prepare the ground for the crops that are to be.