5. “A person filled water for his own use, and (also) for purification?” “He fills first for himself and binds it on the shoulder-pole; and afterward he fills that for purification.” “And if he fill that for purification first, and afterward fill for himself?” “It is disallowed.” He must put his own water behind him, and the water for purification before him. “And if he put that for purification behind him?” “It is disallowed.” “Both are water for purification, he put one in [pg 278] front and one behind him?” “It is allowed, because it is not otherwise possible.”
6. “If one carry a rope in his hand?”[738] “If he go in the (straight) way, it is allowed.” “If he go out of his way?” “It is disallowed.” One went to Jabneth[739] during three feasts, about this matter, and in the third feast it was allowed to him as a decision for the time.
7. “If one rolled the rope round his hand?” “It is allowed; but if he rolled it after (drawing the water), it is disallowed.” Said R. José, “this act they allowed as a decision for the time.”
8. “If one put aside the barrel lest it be broken, or turned it on its mouth for the purpose of drying it, intending to fill it with water?” “It is allowed.” “But if he did so to carry in it ashes?” “It is disallowed.” If one turned out potsherds from the trough, that it might contain more water, it is allowed; but if they would be no hindrance to him in the time of sprinkling, it is disallowed.
9. “One who had water on his shoulder, and he taught a decision in the law or he showed the way to others or he killed a serpent or a scorpion or he took food to put it aside?” “It is disallowed.” “The food was for eating?” “It is allowed.” “The serpent or scorpion hindered him?” “It is allowed.” Said Rabbi Judah, “this is the rule: An act for work, whether a man stood or did not stand, is disallowed; and an act which is not for work, if he stood, is disallowed; but if he did not stand, it is allowed.”
10. “He who handed over his water of purification to an unclean (person)?” “It is disallowed.” “But if he handed it to a legally clean person?” “It is allowed.” R. Eleazar said, “even to a (person legally) unclean it is allowed, if its owner did no work.”
11. “Two persons drew water for purification, and each helped the other, or each took a thorn from the other?” “For one purification it is allowed, for two purifications, it is disallowed.” R. José said, “even for two purifications it is allowed, if it were made a condition between them.”
12. “He who has broken (something) during drawing water for purification with the view of preparing it afterward?” “The water is allowed.” “But if he prepared it?” “The water is disallowed.”[740] “He ate with the view of drying the remainder of his food?” “The water is allowed.” “But if he dried it?” “The water is disallowed.” “He ate and left some, and he threw away what was left in his hand under a fig-tree, or into the place of drying, that it might not be lost?” “The water is disallowed.”