1
R. Jose and R. Hezekiah were once going from Cappadocia to Lydda, and with them was a Jew driving a donkey heavily laden.1The first 17 lines of the Hebrew text do not appear in the translation.
2
On their way they arrived at a field where they noticed a number of animals dead and dying. They said: ‘Undoubtedly, a cattle plague has broken out in this place.’