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15. What kind of one step?' • Just like three feet.'
16. “The cutting out of the three other holes (which are for water], (17) after the coming on of summer, is as much as two finger-breadths in excavation; after the coming on of hail-fraught winter it is as much as four finger-breadths.'
18. How much from those former ones [for bull's urine) ?'
As much as three steps.' 19. What kind of three steps ?'
"As much as the steps one plants in walking with the steps he would take.'
20. What kind of walking with steps ?'
Just like nine feet.' 21. 'Thou shalt also plough up a furrow with the blade due to Shatryðvair?' 22. 'How much from the holes ?' As much as three steps.' What kind of three steps ?'
As much as in walking with the steps one would take and plant.
23. “How much is the walking with steps ?' As much as nine feet.'
24. “Then, afterwards, is the ploughing up of the twelve furrows. 25. By the ploughing up of three from among them three holes are separated within them. 26. Thou shalt plough up three from among them with six holes separated within. 27. Thou shalt plough up three from among them with nine holes separated within. 28. And thou shalt plough
* That is, made of metal, which is under the special protection of the archangel Shatryövair or Shatvairo (sec Dd. XLVIII, 17 n).
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