<p class="poetry">Issachar is a strong-boned donkeyp> <p class="poetry">lying down between two saddlebags.p>

<p class="poetry">Your maxims<n id="1" /> are proverbs of ashes;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your defenses<n id="3" /> are defenses of clay.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you trample on the sea with your horses,p> <p class="poetry">on the surging, raging waters.<n id="1" />p>

and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);

<p class="poetry">how much more to those who live in houses of clay,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose foundation is in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">who are crushed<n id="2" /> like<n id="3" /> a moth?p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, a large vineyard<n id="1" /> will produce just a few gallons,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and enough seed to yield several bushels<n id="3" /> will produce less than a bushel.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits.<n id="1" /> When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them,<n id="2" /> but some survivors<n id="3" /> fled to the hills.<n id="4" />

Every firstling<n id="1" /> of a donkey you must redeem<n id="2" /> with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck.<n id="3" /> Every firstborn of<n id="4" /> your sons you must redeem.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If a man consecrates to the <sc>Lordsc> some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it,<n id="1" /> a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> holds in his hand a cup fullp> <p class="poetry">of foaming wine mixed with spices,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and pours it out.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely all the wicked of the earthp> <p class="poetry">will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have stirred up one out of the north<n id="1" /> and he advances,p> <p class="poetry">one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He steps on<n id="3" /> rulers as if they were clay,p> <p class="poetry">like a potter treading the clay.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">One who argues with his creator is in grave danger,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">one who is like a mere<n id="2" /> shard among the other shards on the ground!p> <p class="poetry">The clay should not say to the potter,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What in the world<n id="4" /> are you doing?p> <p class="poetry">Your work lacks skill!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">butter from the herdp> <p class="poetry">and milk from the flock,p> <p class="poetry">along with the fat of lambs,p> <p class="poetry">rams and goats of Bashan,p> <p class="poetry">along with the best of the kernels of wheat;p> <p class="poetry">and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.p>

Whatever is needed &#8211; whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by<n id="1" /> the priests who are in Jerusalem &#8211; must be given to them daily without any neglect,

up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil,<n id="1" /> and unlimited<n id="2" /> salt.