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CHAPTER LXXXVII, 7-LXXXIX, 3.
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CHAPTER LXXXVIII. 1. The eighty-eighth subject is this, that, as to any piece of wood on which they carry a corpse, or on which they wash it, and that which may be defiled with blood and impurity, that on which menstruous defilement, or a bare limb, is deposited by a menstruous woman, and that on which they impale a human being, it is necessary to avoid the whole of these pieces of wood, and not to work with them again, because one's dress becomes impure; and it is not proper to burn them. 2. It is necessary to put them in a place where any one, who pulls them up and stirs them, will not? bring them into the use of mankind.
CHAPTER LXXXIX. 1. The eighty-ninth subject is this, thats Hôrmazd keeps watch when any one, through imposition ('hilat) and unawares, eats dead matter, or gives it to one of the good religion, or throws dead matter upon one of the good religion. 2. While his will and command are, that it is necessary that such a person should undergo the Bareshnûm ceremony", and accomplish repentance before the spiritual chiefs and high-priests. 3. So that, after that, one may indicate to him the sin in these actions, and he may perform the retribution which the high-priest mentions, in order that, owing to this, his sin may depart.
La has 'to eat on,' Lp'to buy with,' B29 'to touch on.' 2 B29 has any one will not take them up and not stir them about, so that he does not.' 3 B29, J15 insert the religion of.' See Chap. XXXVI, i n. See Chap. XLV, 7 n. [24]
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