Take from them an animal to test and return it the whole entire day. And just as one may take from them an animal to test and return it the whole entire day, so too one may take from them slaves or maidservants to test and return them the whole entire day. All the time that you are bound to return to a Jew, you are bound to return to idolators. If you are not bound to return to a Jew, you are not bound to return to idolators. If an Israelite sells his animal to an idolator on the condition that he slaughter it with the Israelite standing next to him, the idolator may slaughter it. One may buy from them an animal for a sacrifice and not worry on account that it might be unfit due to having copulated with a person or being an object of bestiality or due to it having been set aside [for idol worship] or due to it having been worshipped. Just as one may not sell to them fattened cattle, so too one may not sell to them a fattened wild animal. And even in a place where they sell to them small cattle, one may not sell to them a small wild animal. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, one may sell them dogs, squirrel moles, cats, and apes, things that clean the home. As one does not sell to them, thus one should not barter with them, not bad for good or good for bad, not lame for healthy or healthy for lame. Rabbi Yehuda permits lame because it isn’t possible to heal them. They said to him, he put it out to impregnate [a female] and she gives birth. Rabbi Yosei ben B’teira permitted a horse that doesn’t do labor on shabbat for which they are liable for a sin offering, but the Sages prohibit because of two things: because of war implements and because of large cattle. One may not sell to them implements of war nor weapons and they may not whet their weapons for them. And one may not sell them stocks or foot chains or neck chains or iron chains.

The rule is the same for idolators and for Samaritans. One may entrust to them shorn fields, harvested grain, and cut trees. Rabbi Yehuda says, low growth for shearing on the condition that he will shear it, grain to harvest on condition that he will harvest it, trees for cutting on the condition of cutting them. He who visits gentile camps (s’rat’ya’ot), it is prohibited, because of idolatry according to Rabbi Meir, but the Sages say, in a time when they are [actually] making offerings to idols it is prohibited because of idolatry but if they are not making offerings to idols it is prohibited because of “a session of scorners” (Ps 1:1). The one who goes theater and sees the snakes and the members of the muleteers in the saeculares, the saeculare is prohibited because of “a session of scorners” as it says, “And in a session of scorners he did not sit” (Ps 1:1), you learn that these bring a man to neglect studying Torah. The one who visits the theater of the idolators, if he cries out because someone is in need, he is permitted, but if he does it in alliance [with the Romans] it is prohibited. The one who sits in the theater, this is one who sheds blood. Rabbi Natan permits because of two things: because of crying and saving a life and testifying for a woman that would remarry. One may go to the theater in order to cry out and save the life or a camp of besiegers because of the welfare of the town, but if he is counted among them, it is forbidden.

One may not lease to them houses or fields or vineyards and one may not give them a tenancy (arisut) or a contracted animal—and it is the same for idolators and for Samaritans. Under what circumstances? In Eretz Yisrael. But in Surya, one may rent to them houses but not fields. In both places, a man should not lease his field to an idolator according to Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Yosei says, even in Eretz Yisrael one can rent to them houses and in Surya one may sell them houses and rent fields, and outside of Eretz Yisrael one may sell either. In both places a Jew may not rent his home to an idolator but he may rent to him a shed or a warehouse or an inn, even though he knows idolatry will come in. A Jew may rent his house to a Samaritan and not worry that idolatry will enter it. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says, in any case a Jew may not rent a bathhouse to an idolator it is called by the name of the Jew and they will bathe there on shabbat. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, in any case a Jew may not rent his field to an idolator because it is called by the name of the Jew and they will work there on a holiday.