In an enclosure for wild animals or for fowl or for fish, they may not trap them on Yom Tov, nor may they place food before them; however, they may trap them from Erev Yom Tov, and they may place food before them. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, not all enclosures are the same. This is the general rule: [If] the trap is inadequate (i.e., the animal must still be pursued), it is forbidden; [if] the trap is not inadequate, it is permitted.

They may slaughter animals from n'garin (small ponds) but not from traps or large nets or small nets. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, anyone who spread out [the trap/net] from Erev Yom Tov, and came [on Yom Tov] and found it ruined, the matter is permitted, for it is is known that it was trapped from Erev Yom Tov. [If] he found it in the same condition that it was [when he spread it out], the matter is forbidden, [for] it is known that that it was trapped on Yom Tov.

"It and its young" (Lev. 22:28) that fell into a pit: Rabbi Eliezer says, he may lift out the first [on Yom Tov] on condition that it be slaughtered [that day], and the second one he may give food in its place so that it not die. Rabbi Yehoshua says, he may lift out the first on condition that it be slaughtered, but not slaughter it, and engage in deceit (i.e., purport to change his mind) and lift out the second on condition that it be slaughtered. If he wants to slaughter one of them, or not slaughter one of them, the decision is in his hand.

A first-born animal that fell into a pit: Rabbi Shimon says, even though its blemish was known from Erev Yom Tov, [if] an expert had not [yet] rendered it permitted, they may not slaughter it on Yom Tov, because it is not from that which was prepared (i.e., previously designated for consumption on Yom Tov). They may make a feeding-place for a swarm of bees so that they not escape, but they may not trap them from the outset. How so? They may not be counted [as having a share] in an animal at the outset on Yom Tov. One shall not say to [another], "I am hereby [partnering] with you [in this animal] with this sela," or "I am hereby [partnering] with you with these two [selas]." Rather, he says to him, "I am hereby [partnering] with you for half, or for a third, or for a quarter [of this animal]." And the Sages say (Beit. 3:6), one may not gaze at a scale whatsoever, but he may weigh [an animal by hand] and set it down, and if there was a butcher [who was] an expert at weighing by hand, [he may not do so] because his hand is like a scale. But he may cut it with a utensil and give [the cuts of meat] to this one and to that one.

A person may walk to the usual butcher where he lives and say to him, "Give me a foreleg" [or] "[Give me] a hind leg"; or to the usual baker and say to him, "Give me a loaf" [or] "[Give me] a roll"; or to the usual animal-dealer where he lives and say to him, "Give me a chick" [or] "[Give me] a chicken"; or to the usual shopkeeper where he lives and say to him, "Give me fifty walnuts" [or] "[Give me] ten eggs" [or] "[Give me] ten pomegranates," as long as [the seller] does not tell him the total amount (i.e., the price) of his purchase. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, as long as he does he does not tell him the total amount of his account.

A person may not place [any food] before his children or before his animals either by measure or by weight or by number, but he may cut a hole in a seah-measure or in a tarkav measure and place it before his animals, or cut a hole in a ladle and place it before his children, as long as he does not intend [to measure with it]. They said about Rabbi Elazar bar Tzadok and Abba Shaul ben Botnit, that they were shopkeepers in Jerusalem all the days of their lives, and they would fill their measuring vessels from Erev Yom Tov and set them out for the buyers on Yom Tov. Rabbi Chananiah ben Antigonos says, even on the intermediate days of the festivals they would do so on account of the neglect of the study halls [on those days]. And the Sages say, even on weekdays days they would do so for the sake of draining the measures (see Beitzah 29a:12-13). One of them even brought three hundred jugs of oil and the other [brought] three hundred jugs of wine for the sake of draining the measures, and they brought [the wine and oil that had dripped out] up to the [Temple] treasurers. [The treasurers] said to them, "You need not do this." They said to them, "We do not desire [to keep] it." They said to them, "Since you were stringent on yourselves, let this belong to the public, and let it be used for the public need."

They may not remove wood from a sukkah even on the last Yom Tov of Sukkot. If he said [beforehand], "When I wish to, I will remove it," behold, this is permitted. They may not bring wood, either with rope or with a basket or with a mat, but they bring it with an apron or in the fold of a garment (i.e., in an unusual manner).

Said Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel did not disagree about gathered [wood] that is in a karpef (an enclosure outside the Shabbat boundaries), that they may bring it in, or about scattered [wood] that is in a field, that they may not bring it in. About what did they disagree? About scattered [wood] that is in a field, for Beit Shammai say they may not bring it in, and Beit Hillel say they may bring it in. Said Rabbi Natan, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel did not disagree about scattered [wood] that is in a karpef or about gathered [wood] that is in a field, they they may bring it in. About what did they disagree? About scattered [wood] that is in a field, for Beit Shammai say they may not bring it in, and Beit Hillel say they may bring it in.

A bed and a chair and a bench and a catedra and a kneading-trough that broke apart, and so too a beam that broke, and so too a pile of beams that broke, they may not kindle from them on Yom Tov because they are not from the prepared. Walnuts and almonds that he ate from Erev Yom Tov: They may kindle their shells on Yom Tov. The walnuts and almonds themselves may not be kindled on Yom Tov, for they are not from the prepared. The Sages agree with Rabbi Meir that in regards to marked enclosures on the ground, they may untie, loosen them, or unravel them, but they may not cut them, or on Shabbat they may unravel or loosen them but not untie them, nor cut them, and as to those that are on vessels, it is permitted, and needless to say, on Yom Tov. A person may tear the leather that is on the mouth of a wine jug or [a jug of] fish brine, as long as he intends to make a spout.

They may not open a tightly covered stewpot, and Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel permits it. They may not extinguish a log to save it; but to prevent the house from filling with smoke or the stew from burning, it is permitted. A person may not place a stone (אבן) on top of log in order to break it, but he may throw it into a hole to break it. They may not make a charcoal on Yom Tov even for the same day (Beitzah 4:4), but they may sweeten mustard with a burning coal. They may not blow on (i.e., fan) a fire with a bellows, but they blow on it with a reed tube. They may not make a spit, and they may not sharpen it. They may may not split open a reed to roast salted [fish] with it, but they may split open a walnut with an apron and need not be concerned on account of tearing.

An new oven or portable stove, behold, they are like any other vessel, and they may transport them [on Yom Tov], but they may not rub oil on them, and they may not wipe them down with strip of cloth, nor may one wipe them with cold water in order to harden them, [but] if it is in order to bake with them, it is permitted. Neither men nor women may be carried out on a sedan chair, nor a blind person with his cane, nor a shepherd with his traveling bag. Rabbi Eliezer bar Yishmael says, they even may not drive the livestock with a staff on Yom Tov.

Rabbi Eliezer says, a person may pick up a chip to pick his teeth with it (Beitzah 4:6), and the Sages say, he may only take it from the manger that is before the livestock, as long as he does not cut it off to pick his teeth with it. If he cut it off on Shabbat, he is liable for a sin offering; on Yom Tov, forty lashes. Rabbi Eliezer says, he may gather [kindling material] from a courtyard and light it, as long as he does not arrange it into piles, and Rabbi Shimon permits it, as everything in a courtyard is [considered] prepared.

They may not scald the head or legs [of an animal that is being cooked], and they may not smear it with clay or earth [to remove its hair], but they may singe it with fire. And they not trim [the hair] of its head or its legs, and they may not trim vegetables with garden shears, but he may trim the horns [of an animal] and of achbiyot (edible thistles). And they may kindle and bake in a large baker's oven, and heat water [in a kettle suspended] on a kettle-stand, but they may not kindle a large baker's oven to bake in it for the first time.

They stated six matters regarding a wick, three to be stringent and three to be lenient. These are the three to be stringent: They may not make it ab initio [on Yom Tov], and they may not singe it with fire, and they may not cut it in two. These are the three to be lenient: They may soak it in oil, and crush it by hand, and cut it with fire for two candles.