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1) [line 1] "BENU VATIM V'SHEVU V'NIT'U GANOS V'ICHLU ES PIRYAN." - "Build
houses and settle [in them,] and plant gardens and eat their fruit." 2) [line 4] "[...'LAKO'ACH ES HA'SEFARIM HA'ELEH, ES SEFER HA'MIKNAH HA'ZEH, V'ES HE'CHASUM V'ES SEFER HA'GALUY HA'ZEH,] U'NESATAM BI'CHLI CHARES; L'MA'AN YA'AMDU YAMIM RABIM.'" - "[...'Take these documents, this deed of the purchase, both that which is sealed, and this open deed,] and put them in an earthenware vessel; so that they may last for many days.'" (Yirmeyahu 32:14)
3) [line 5] SHATA KAMAISA - the first year
5) [line 21] RETZUFOS - consecutive, i.e. years one, two and three
9) [line 32] SHIVEVEI - neighbors
11) [line 35] NOG'IN B'EDUSAN
12) [line 36] AGAR BEISA - the rent for the house
14) [line 1] ROCHLIN HA'MACHAZIRIN BA'AYAROS - peddlers (of spices) who walk from city to city [selling their spices] 15) [line 3] CHENVASA D'MECHOZA - the shops of Mechoza, a large Jewish trading town on the Tigris River 16) [line 5] ZAVUN HA'HI AMSA BAHADEI HADADEI - bought a maidservant together, as partners 17) [line 7] NAFAK AR'AR ILAVAH - a protest was registered about her [that she belonged to others]
18) [line 12] ITRA - a document recording a division of property
20) [line 14] BEIS ROVA (MEASUREMENTS OF VOLUME)
1 k'Zayis = approximately 0.025, 0.0288 or 0.05 liters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions.(c) A Beis Rova is a parcel of land in which one Rova of grain is normally planted. The area of a Beis Rova is 104.17 square Amos, approximately 21.65, 24 or 34.56 square meters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions.
21a) [line 18] B'UKUMEI BAH CHEIVASA - by putting animals there [to graze] 22) [line 23] BI'SHECHUNEI GAVA'EI HAVAI - I was in the inner rooms [for the entire time that you claim to have made a Chazakah, and I passed by you each time I went out] 23) [line 24] BEROR ACHILASECH - prove your Chazakah (lit. your eating [the "produce" of the house]) [by bringing witnesses that you lived in the house *alone* for three years]
24) [line 25] HA'MOTZI ME'CHAVEIRO ALAV HA'RE'AYAH
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