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CHAPTER XIX, 57-XX, 5.
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tion it is certain or doubtful. 65. About causing the execution of one worthy of death for entertaining fondness for witchcraft and laughing at witchcraft, and whatever is on the same subject.
CHAPTER XX. Nikadûm Nask.
1. In the fifth section are twenty-four particulars1 about the standing up and going forth of a man with a weapon and angry thoughts towards another man; and also when he takes a beast of burden, saddles it, and sits upon it, takes the rein (ayôkham) in hand and walks away; this, too, that, when he arrives there, he smites that man, or some one else; and whatever is on the same subject. 2. About what one has to do when the conversation of two men is of the destruction of a righteous man, of highway robbery, and of the cursing owing thereto; and whatever is on the same subject. 3. About what one has to do when, of two men who are on the same road, one slays a righteous man; and about the other when he is fearless, and when he is fearful. 4. About preserving one worthy of death when it is requisite for medical purposes (bezashkih), though the plaintiff is of a different opinion; and whatever is on the same subject.
5. About the needlessness of plaintiffs and defendants speaking as to the substance (min tanû) of
It is not clear whether these twenty-four particulars are to be sought in the details of § 1, or in the whole chapter, or some portion of it.
⚫ Merely a guess.
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