Kilayim 2:5 - 2:6

קנבוס או לוף (hemp or lof/a plant similar to Colocasia, with edible beans and root, and bearing beans – similar to an onion) – these species, the rottenness/being worn-eaten and the plowing do not affect them, because they are preserved in the ground for three years and do not become worm-eaten.

אסטיס (woad, a plant producing a deep blue dye) – its color is similar to the purple-blue thread used for ritual fringes (i.e., bluish or cerulean dye) that we call it NIL in Arabic and in the foreign tongue ENDIKO, and we regularly sever it and it returns and grows back, and what grows the second time is called an after-growth/spontaneous growth. Alternatively, that which grows from the seed that falls at the time of harvesting/reaping is called after-growth.

מקום הגרנות – that they thresh grain and pulse in it.

תלתן – in Arabic CHULBAH and in the foreign tongue FENGREEKO (i.e., fenugreek)

אין מחייבין אותו לנכש (the law does not bind him to pluck out/weed the plants that grow among the fenugreek) – that without that its end would be to uproot them because woad is difficult for the grain for the grasses are hard for fenugreek when it is planted for human food, and the place of the threshing floors – the seeds are hard for it for they undermine the ground and blight/smite it and it is not appropriate further as a place of threshing.

ואם נכש או כסח (if he weeded or cut down) – for now he has revealed his opinion that it is pleasant for him with those that remain for behold he has uprooted everything except for them, we say to him, uproot everything because it appears like he is preserving mixed seeds/Kilayim.

נכש – that he uprooted the plants with the root by his hands.

כסח – that he severed the leaves, but the root remains in the ground, the Aramaic translation of (Leviticus 25:4): "לא תזמר" /or prune [your vineyard] is לא תכסח /do not trim/cut.

משר משר (to divide his field in straight lines/beds of various seeds – instead of square) -beds/grooves among beds/grooves and each bed/groove is from one species alone.

שלשה תלמים של פתיה (three ridges of a furrowed field) – that is to say, that he leaves between each bed/groove space of three ridges of a plough from the language (Isaiah 28:24): “breaking up and furrowing his land,” and in the Jerusalem Talmud it explains that they are two cubits wide by two cubits in length and afterwards he makes a boundary and goes on if he wants until there would not remain between them at the end of the boundary other than a little bit, for through this they appear that they were not sown in a mixture.

וקרובים דברי אלו וכו' - that the measure of three ridges of a furrowed field is close to being equivalent to the width of a yoke used in the plain of Sharon.