## Mishnah Arakhin Chapter 1

###### Mishnah Arakhin 1:1
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הַכֹּל מַעֲרִיכִין וְנֶעֱרָכִין, נוֹדְרִים וְנִדָּרִים, כֹּהֲנִים וּלְוִיִּם וְיִשְׂרְאֵלִים, נָשִׁים וַעֲבָדִים. טֻמְטוּם וְאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס, נוֹדְרִים וְנִדָּרִים וּמַעֲרִיכִין, אֲבָל לֹא נֶעֱרָכִין, שֶׁאֵינוֹ נֶעֱרָךְ אֶלָּא זָכָר וַדַּאי וּנְקֵבָה וַדָּאִית. חֵרֵשׁ, שׁוֹטֶה וְקָטָן, נִדָּרִין וְנֶעֱרָכִין, אֲבָל לֹא נוֹדְרִין וְלֹא מַעֲרִיכִין, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֵין בָּהֶם דָּעַת. פָּחוּת מִבֶּן חֹדֶשׁ, נִדָּר אֲבָל לֹא נֶעֱרָךְ:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Everyone takes** vows of **valuation** and is thereby obligated to donate to the Temple treasury the value fixed by the Torah (see Leviticus 27:3–7) for the age and sex of the person valuated. **And** similarly, everyone **is valuated,** and therefore one who vowed to donate his fixed value is obligated to pay. Likewise, everyone **vows** to donate to the Temple treasury the assessment of a person, based on his market value to be sold as a slave, and is thereby obligated to pay; **and** everyone is the object of **a vow** if others vowed to donate his assessment. This includes **priests, Levites and Israelites, women, and** Canaanite **slaves.** **A *tumtum*,** whose sexual organs are concealed, **and a hermaphrodite [*androginos*], vow, and** are the object of **a vow, and take** vows of **valuation, but they are not valuated.** Consequently, if one says, with regard to a *tumtum*: The valuation of so-and-so is incumbent upon me to donate to the Temple treasury, he is not obligated to pay anything, **as only a definite male or a definite female are valuated.** **A deaf-mute, an imbecile, and a minor** are the object of **a vow and are valuated, but neither vow** to donate the assessment of a person **nor take** a vow of **valuation, because they lack the** presumed **mental competence** to make a commitment. A child **less than one month old is** the object of **a vow** if others vowed to donate his assessment, **but is not valuated** if one vowed to donate his fixed value, as the Torah did not establish a value for anyone less than a month old.


###### Mishnah Arakhin 1:2
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הַנָּכְרִי, רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר נֶעֱרָךְ אֲבָל לֹא מַעֲרִיךְ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, מַעֲרִיךְ אֲבָל לֹא נֶעֱרָךְ. זֶה וָזֶה מוֹדִים, שֶׁנּוֹדְרִין וְנִדָּרִין:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
With regard to **a gentile, Rabbi Meir says:** He **is valuated** in a case where a Jew says: It is incumbent upon me to donate the fixed value of this gentile. **But** a gentile **does not take** a vow of **valuation** to donate his fixed value or the value of others. **Rabbi Yehuda says: He takes** a vow of **valuation, but is not valuated. And** both **this** *tanna*, Rabbi Meir, **and that** *tanna*, Rabbi Yehuda, **agree that** gentiles **vow** to donate the assessment of another **and are** the object of **vows,** whereby one donates the assessment of a gentile.


###### Mishnah Arakhin 1:3
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הַגּוֹסֵס, וְהַיּוֹצֵא לֵהָרֵג, לֹא נִדָּר וְלֹא נֶעֱרָךְ. רַבִּי חֲנִינָא בֶּן עֲקַבְיָא אוֹמֵר, נֶעֱרָךְ, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁדָּמָיו קְצוּבִין, אֲבָל אֵינוֹ נִדָּר, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֵין דָּמָיו קְצוּבִין. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, נוֹדֵר וּמַעֲרִיךְ וּמַקְדִּישׁ. וְאִם הִזִּיק, חַיָּב בַּתַּשְׁלוּמִין:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**One who is moribund and one who is taken to be executed** after being sentenced by the court **is neither** the object of **a vow nor valuated. Rabbi Ḥanina ben Akavya says:** He is not the object of a vow, because he has no market value; but **he is valuated, due to** the fact **that one’s value is fixed** by the Torah based on age and sex. **Rabbi Yosei says:** One with that status **vows** to donate the assessment of another person to the Temple treasury, **and takes** vows of **valuation, and consecrates** his property; **and if he damages** the property of others, he is **liable** to pay compensation.


###### Mishnah Arakhin 1:4
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הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהִיא יוֹצְאָה לֵהָרֵג, אֵין מַמְתִּינִין לָהּ עַד שֶׁתֵּלֵד. יָשְׁבָה עַל הַמַּשְׁבֵּר, מַמְתִּינִין לָהּ עַד שֶׁתֵּלֵד. הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁנֶּהֶרְגָה, נֶהֱנִין בִּשְׂעָרָהּ. בְּהֵמָה שֶׁנֶּהֶרְגָּה, אֲסוּרָה בַהֲנָיָה:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
In the case of a pregnant **woman who is taken** by the court **to be executed,** the court **does not wait to** execute **her until she gives birth.** Rather, she is killed immediately. But with regard to **a woman** taken to be executed **who sat on the travailing chair [*hamashber*]** in the throes of labor, the court **waits to** execute **her until she gives birth.** In the case of **a woman who was killed** through court-imposed capital punishment, **one may derive benefit from her hair.** But in the case of **an animal that was killed** through court-imposed execution, e.g., for goring a person, **deriving benefit** from the animal **is prohibited.**