The Mishnah on Demon Possession, Exorcism, and the Limits of Allowable Travel on the Sabbath

 The following is taken from Mishnah Erubin:

 

4:1       A          He whom gentiles took forth [beyond the Sabbath limit],

            B          or an evil spirit,

            C          has only four cubits [in which to move about].

            D          [If] they brought him back, it is as if he never went out.

            E          [If] they carried him to another town,

            F          or put him into a cattle pen or a cattlefold,

            G         Rabban Gamaliel and R. Eleazar b. Azariah say, “He may walk about the entire area.”

            H          R. Joshua and R. Aqiba say, “He has only four cubits [in which to move about].” (Jacob Neusner, The Mishnah : A New Translation [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988], 214)