An Athenian came to Jerusalem. He entered a school and found children sitting there but their teacher was not there with them. He was asking them questions and they would respond. They said to him: ‘Let us agree between us that whoever asks a question and defeats his counterpart, they will take his garments.’ He said to them: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘You, who are residents of this place, should be first.’ They said to him: ‘You respond first because you are an elderly man.’ They said to him: ‘These items, what are they? Nine exit, eight enter, two pour, one drinks, and twenty-four are attendants.’ He could not respond and they took his garments. He came to Rabbi Yoḥanan, their teacher. He said to him: ‘Alas, rabbi, there is this great evil in your midst, that when a person comes as a visitor among you, you take his garments.’ He said to him: ‘Is it, perhaps, that they said something to you and you were unable to respond to them, and they took your garments?’ He said to him: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘What did they say to you?’ He said to him: ‘Such and such they said to me.’ He said to him: ‘My son, nine exit, these are the months of a child in the womb. Eight enter, these are the eight days of circumcision. Two pour, these are the two breasts, both of which pour. One drinks, this is the baby who was born. Twenty-four attendants, these are the twenty-four months of nursing.’ Immediately, he came, responded to them, and took his garments. They read in his regard: “Had you not ploughed with my calf, you would not have solved my riddle” (Judges 14:18).