External Factors That Affect the Fetus

Aramaic

A woman who has intercourse in a [public] mill will have epileptic children.

[A woman] who has intercourse on the ground will have children with dislocated legs.

[A woman] who treads on donkey’s blood will have children with scrapings [a skin disease].

[A woman] who eats mustard [seed] will have gluttonous children.

[A woman] who eats cress will have bleary-eyed children.

[A woman] who eats [fish] brine will have children with sparkling eyes.

[A woman] who eats clay will have ugly children.

[A woman] who drinks shikra¹ will have dark-skinned children.

[A woman] who eats meat and drinks wine will have healthy children.

[A woman] who eats eggs will have children with big eyes.

[A woman] who eats fish will have graceful children.

[A woman] who eats parsley will have bright² children.

[A woman] who eats coriander will have fleshy children.

[A woman] who eats citrons [etrog] will have fragrant children.