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סדר נזיקין OR, DAMAGES; TREATS OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS AND THINGS. _________ XXX. TREATISE BABAH KAMAN, THE FIRST GATE. _________ XXXI. TREATISE BABAH MEZIAH, THE MIDDLE GATE. _________ XXXII. TREATISE BABAH BATHRA, THE LAST GATE. [The above Treatises contain civil laws. They are called "Gates," because, in the East, justice is administered in the city gates.] _________ XXXIII. TREATISE SANHEDRIN. [Contains ceremonial laws. It also treats of the institution of the municipal and provincial Sanhedrin, and of the great Bethdin, or Sanhedrin at Jerusalem; whence its name.] _________ XXXIV. TREATISE MACOOTH. [Treats of corporeal punishments; also, of false witnesses, and of the involuntary homicide, and the cities of refuge.] _________ XXXV. TREATISE SHEBUOTH. [Contains precepts for the administration of oaths.] p. 323 XXXVI. TREATISE EDIOTH, TESTIMONIES. [Is so called because it consists of laws which tried and trustworthy teachers attested to have been adopted by the elder teachers, in Sanhedrin assembled.] _________ XXXVII. TREATISE ABODAH ZARAH. [Contains laws relating to idolatry, heresy, and the enticers or seducers to either.] _________ XXXVIII. TREATISE ABOTH, ETHICS OF THE FATHERS. [Contains moral precepts, maxims, and apothegms, of the elder, or Mishnic teachings.]
_________ XXXIX. TREATISE HORIOTH, PRECEPTS. [Treats of such errors in judgment committed by the great Sanhedrin as require a sin-offering. Vide Lev. iv. 13–21, and 22–26.] Which closes the Seder Nezekin. ============================= סדר קדשים CONSECRATED THINGS; CONTAINS XL. TREATISE ZEBACHIM. [Having laws relating to sacrifices generally.] _________ XLI. TREATISE MINCHOTH, MEAT-OFFERINGS. [Containing laws relating to offerings of flour.]
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file jud/etm/etm149.htm.
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