לפני אידיהם של גוים – [the word אידיהם is] a byname of reproach for their holy days and festivals.

לשאת ולתת – to sell and to purchase. Because they go and praise idolatry on the day of their holidays.

להשאילן – cattle and utensils, things that return as they are.

להלוותם – [to lend them] money but it was not an adornment to the eye, for a loan is given [merely] for the expenditure.

לפורען – when they are collected, they go and give praise to idolatry on the day of their holidays.

מפני שהוא מיצר – on his money which they do not restore to him, and he does not go and give praise [to idolatry].

שמח הוא לאחר זמן – on the morrow [after] his holiday, he goes and gives praise [to idolatry]. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda, and specifically a loan [written in a] document is prohibited to collect from them, but an oral loan is permissible, because he is like saves it from their hands.

לאחר אידיהן מותר – And such is the Halakha. But in the Diaspora, where we are unable to contain ourselves from engaging in business with them, since the principal part of our sustenance is from them, and furthermore, because of fear, it is not prohibited [to do business with them] other than only on the day of their holy days alone. But nowadays, there is the general practice of permission [to engage in business interaction with them] even on the actual day of their festivals, because the Rabbis established regarding them that they do not go and praise [their deities]. [But those things that are forbidden in this Tractate speaks about idolatrous worship and actual idolatry].

קלנדיא – eight days after the winter solstice [begins].

סטרנורא – eight days prior to the solstice; since the first man (i.e., Adam) saw that the [length of the] day was gradually getting shorter. He said: Woe is me, lest because I sinned, the world is returning to become “null and void.” He stood and sat for eight days in fasting (and in prayer), since from the time that the solstice occurred, and he (i.e., Adam) saw that the days are gradually lengthening, he said: it is the nature of the world. He stood and made an eight-day festival. In the following year, they made both of them holy days and he established them [in honor of] the heavens, and they were established for idolatrous worship.

קרטסים – the day of taking hold of the kingship, and they established it as a holiday.

גינוסיא – the day when they appoint the king.

יום הלידה – the day on which the king is born

שריפה – where they burn the utensils in the manner that they burn them for kings.

יש בה ע"ז – that is to say, that selfsame day they have a idolatrous holiday, and from year to year all the days of his son, and all these we consider until now, they value and it is forbidden [for us to interact with them] three days before [their festivals].

אבל יום תגלחת זקנו – which is not a set time for the group, but each person, when he shaves makes that day a festival.

ובלוריתו – that he places his locks behind him all year long but does not sheer them other than on an annual basis, the day of his sheering he makes a holiday.

ויום שעלה מן הים – And he offers sacrifices to idolatry on account that he was saved. In all of these, it is not prohibited other than on that day and not beforehand, and they do not consider it all that much.

עיר שיש בה ע"ז – that the day of their festival the people of the city have a day for idolatrous worship who are in the city.

חוצה לה – and even very near the city, it is permissible to engage in business with those who dwell outside the city, for they are not drawn after that idolatry, and such is their practice. The day of their festival [of those in the city] Is not like the day of the festival [of those outside the city].

מהו לילך שם – in the same city on the day of their idolatrous worship.

בזמן שהדרך מיוחדת לאותה העיר – that the paved road from here to that city, is unique to that city alone, it is forbidden to go there, because it appears as one who is going there for idolatrous worship, and if there was a course of the road also goes to another city, it is permitted, for one who sees it states, “he is going to another place.”

היו בה חנויות מעוטרות – and the sign for them is that those stores are idolatrous, to collect taxes from them.

ושאינן מעוטרות מותרות – and those which are not wreathed, they don’t take taxes from him for idolatry, and they don’t bring to the idolatry any benefit from them, and to purchase from them something of value, is permissible on the day of their festival, for generally one who sells is sad [when he sells something he values] and does not go and praise [idolatry].

אצטרובלין – fruit of the cedar.

בנות שוח – it is prohibited for an Israelite to sell a kind of the species of the large white figs to an idolater.

ופטוטרות – with their stems (Talmud Avodah Zarah 13b) it is stated, meaning to say, with their stalks/peduncles by which they are suspended, for undefined, the idolater wants to offer them as a [sacrificial] offering to idolatry.

תרנגול לבן בין תרנגולין – an idolater bought from an Israelite many chickens, it is permitted to sell amongst them a white chicken and since another person took them, It was not for idolatry that he wanted them.

ופירושן אסור – if he explained/specified that it was for idolatry that he needed them, it is prohibited. And it was necessary for our Mishnah [to specify this] for you might think that I would say that this person wanted them not for idolatrous purposes, and when he said this, he holds that just as that this person clings to it (for idolatrous purposes), everyone also clings to it, and I would say this for [just as] he would give it to me, it to teach us [that the reverse is to be taught].

דקל טב – [fruits] of a superior date which are regularly used for sacrificial purposes to idolatry.

נקב – reeds that they make from them sugar.

ונקליהם – a kind of very superior herb/grass, and the Halakha is according to Rabbi Meir.

אין מוכרין בהמה גסה – for we decree that selling is on account of renting and borrowing, for it is the animal of an Israelite and the idolater will do work with it on the Sabbath and through a middleman, for they cannot exchange it through renting it, for the middleman does not lease it, but he is permitted to sell it.

שלמים ושבורים – for even the injured/maimed are appropriate for work for they grind/mill with them.

רבי יהודה מתיר בשבורה – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

בו בתירה מתיר בסוס – and even the horse that the hunters/fowlers bring upon them the birds that they hunt, for he holds that the living carries himself. But the Rabbis hold that that especially human beings carry themselves. Therefore, if it (i.e., the horse) did not have a special [purpose] other than to ride upon it, it is permissible, but to bring upon it a living creature other than a human being, it is prohibited. But the Halakha is not according to Ben Beteyra.

כל דבר שיש [בו] נזק לרבים – as, for example, military utensils, swords and spears.

בסילקי – a tall palace/villa where they sit to judge people and they cast them from there and they die (see Talmud Avodah Zarah 16b).

גרדום – one building and it is made to judge capital cases.

איצטדיא – a place of sport that they bring a goring ox and they kill a man.

בימה – a kind of short or tall tower made in order to push a person down from them and he dies.

דימוסיאות – buildings that are not for the needs of idolatry, nor to kill people.

כיפה – in the foreign language “Arkayultav;” it is the manner of idolaters to place idolatry in their bathhouses.

אבל מוכר הוא משיקוץ – that he should not sell it to him when it is attached [to the ground] but rather after it is cut away. But not all the while that it is attached. And the Torah stated (Deuteronomy 7:2): “And give them no quarter,” nor give them no chance of acquiring property (sell them no trees in the ground – see Talmud Avodah Zarah 20a).

אין משכירין להם בתים – it is a decree because of selling which is a prohibition from the Torah.

ואצ"ל שדות – for there are two levels of prohibition: acquiring property and exempting them from tithes.

ובסוריא – Aram Sobah which [King] David conquered and is not holy like the holiness of the Land [of Israel].

משכירין להם בתיים – and we don’t make the decree on account of selling and for alternatively, it would come to selling but he did not violate the Torah for just as it is written to not give them the chance to acquire property in the land of Israel, it is written, but however, ab initio not selling in the land of Israel because of selling of the land of Israel.

אבל לא שדות – because there are two levels of prohibition.

וח"ל – because of the distance, one cannot make a decree regarding selling for from there it does not lead to sale of the land of Israel.

מוכרין בתים ומשכירין שדות – but not the sale of fields because there are two [levels of prohibition].

רבי יוסי אומר כו'' -And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yosi as long as one does not lease to three idolaters together so that they will not make a neighborhood of idolaters.

אף במקום שאמרו להשכיר – for Rabbi Meir in Syria especially, but not in the land of Israel and for Rabbi yosi even in the land of Israel.

לא לבית דירה אמרו – but rather to bring into there straw and wood and things like it.

מפני שהיא נקראת על שמו – because the idolater because he warms himself up on the Sabbath and they (i.e., people) will say “this is the bathhouse of so-and-so the Israelite where they wash in it on Shabbat” but it is not similar to a field of an Israelite where the tenant farmer is an idolater who does work on it on the Sabbath, for the field is worked for his tenancy and the idolater is a personal tenant farmer who is doing his own labor ( and not as the Israelite’s employee -see Talmud Avodah Zarah 21b). But a bathhouse is not for working as a tenant, and not everyone knows that he the Israelite leased it to an idolater and therefore, it is prohibited. But at the present time when it is manner to lower the tenant to the bathhouse for a year, for half, or a third or a fourth of the earnings, in the same manner that they bringing him down into the fields, they permitted to lease a bathhouse to an idolater, and even though [the idolater] does work in it on the Sabbath, people [surely] know that the idolater is a tenant there, for he he is doing his own tenancy while using it.