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א"ל אחד מהם לחבירו גמל שמהלכת לפנינו סומא באחת מעיניה וטעונה שתי נודות אחת של יין ואחת של שמן ושני בני אדם המנהיגים אותה אחד ישראל ואחד נכרי אמר להן [שבאי] עם קשה עורף מאין אתם יודעין

One of them said to the other, 'The camel walking in front of us is blind in one eye, and is laden with two barrels, one of wine, and the other of oil, and of the two men leading it, one is a Jew, and the other a heathen.' Their captor said to them, 'Ye stiff-necked people, whence do ye know this?' They replied, 'Because the camel is eating of the herbs before it only on the side where it can see, but not on the other, where it cannot see.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An animal eats from the herbs on both sides of it. This camel however, was eating of one side only, proving that it was blind in one eye. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> It is laden with two barrels, one of wine and the other of oil: because wine drips and is absorbed [into the earth], whilst oil drips and rests<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'floats'. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> [on the surface].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And they had observed two lines of such drops — one absorbed into the earth, and the other remaining on the surface. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>

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