Chapter LVII

CHAPTER LVII.

1. The fifty-seventh subject is this, that it is not proper to kill a hedgehog; and, everywhere that they see it, it is necessary to take it up and carry it into the wilderness (sa‘hrâ), so that it may go into a hole, which is ever considered a great good work. 2. Because, when a hedgehog is in their nest 1, some ants will die; it will also catch and eat thousands of snakes and 2 other harmful creatures, and it eats all noxious creatures. 3. Therefore, owing to the whole of this, these words are expedient.