Related%20passage for Taanit 41:16
ביום אחד או בד' ימים אין זה דבר ועיר המוציאה חמש מאות רגלי כגון כפר עמיקו ויצאו ממנה שלשה מתים בג' ימים זה אחר זה הרי זה דבר
WHAT CONSTITUTES PLAGUE? IF IN A CITY THAT CAN SUPPLY FIVE HUNDRED FOOT-SOLDIERS etc. Our Rabbis have taught: If in a city that can supply fifteen hundred foot-soldiers, as for example Kefar Acco,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 28, n. 4.');"><sup>14</sup></span> nine deaths take place in three consecutive days, this constitutes plague; if, however, these deaths take place in one day or in four days it is not plague. And if in a city that can supply five hundred foot-soldiers, as for example, Kefar-Amiko,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [North of Acco, Klein, NB, p. 9].');"><sup>15</sup></span> three deaths take place in three consecutive days this constitutes plague; if, however, they take place in one day or in four days it is not plague.
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