12. Within a house he shall not lift stone nor earth on the Sabbath day.
13. The nurse shall not carry an infant in arms, going out or coming in with it on the Sabbath.
14. A man shall not deal harshly with his slave or his maid or his hired servant on the Sabbath.
15. A man shall not deliver cattle of their young on the Sabbath day.
16. If a beast fall into a cistern or trap, a man shall not lift it out on the Sabbath.
17. A man shall not pass the Sabbath in a place near the gentiles.
18. A man shall not profane the Sabbath for the sake of gain.
19. If a human being fall into a tank of water or into a place of ... no man shall fetch him up by means of a ladder or a rope or any implement.
20. No man shall bring upon the altar on the Sabbath anything except the Sabbath burnt-offerings, for so it is written, “aside from your Sabbaths.”
The dietary laws afford other examples of the strict rules of the sect.[43] Fish may be eaten only if, while still alive, they have been split open and drained of their blood; grasshoppers and locusts must be put alive into the water or the fire (in which they are to be cooked); honey in the comb is apparently prohibited. So, again, in a house in which a death has occurred, fixtures, such as nails and pegs in the walls, are unclean; and wood, stone, and dust are capable of contracting and communicating various kinds of uncleanness (12 15-18). The sect sees in these stricter distinctions between clean and unclean the superiority of its ordinances over those of other Jews, whom they regard as sinfully lax. The Pharisees are to them gross latitudinarians!