LEV809 Rava said: Why does Scripture mention the exodus from Egypt in connection with weights? The Holy One Blessed be He is saying [as it were]: "I am He who distinguished in Egypt between the drop of the first-born and the drop which was not of the first-born; I am He who is destined to exact payment from him who dips his weights in salt" [to make them heavier] (Bava Metzia 61b).

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LEV817 What is the intent of: "and a just hin"? Was not "hin" in the category of: "a just ephah" [Why, then, was it singled out?} To teach that your "Yes" ["hehn" (similar to "hin")] should be just and that your "No" should be just (Bava Metzia 49b)

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LEV827 It was taught: R. Shimon said: If he sinned, how has his family sinned? We are being taught, however, that there is no family with a tax-gouger, where all are not tax-gougers; when there is a thief, where all are not thieves -- for they support and cover up for him (Shevuoth 39a)

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LEV832 The Rabbis taught: I might think, since there is liability both for striking and for cursing, that just as there is liability for striking only in a lifetime of the parent, so there is liability for cursing only in his lifetime; it is, therefore, written: "He has cursed his father and his mother" -- even after death (Sanhedrin 85b)

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LEV845 If the man sinned, how did the beast sin? Because a man was "undone" by it, Scripture commands it to be killed. Or -- so that the beast not walk through the market and people say: "This is the one for which that man was stoned" (Sanhedrin 54b)

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LEV847 Ulla said: Whence is it derived that peripheral [non-consummated] intercourse ["he'arah"] is forbidden by Scripture? It is written: "And a man who lies…he has bared her fountain." From here it is derived that peripheral intercourse is forbidden by the Torah [it being referred to as "lying," the convention term for intercourse] (Yevamoth 54a)

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LEV857 It was taught: "R. Elazar b. Azaryah says: Whence is it derived that a man should not say: I do not desire to eat the flesh of a pig; I do not desire to live with the forbidden relations, [but that he should say:] I do desire it, but what can I do? My Father in heaven has decreed against it! It is derived from: "and I have set you apart from the peoples to be unto Me" (Torath Cohanim)

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LEV952 R. Chanina said: According to the Torah, both capital cases and monetary litigations require thorough cross-examination of the witnesses. Why, then, did the sages say that monetary litigations do not require such cross-examination? So that the door not be closed to borrowers [people fearing to lend, lest their witnesses be "caught" in some technicality of cross-examination] (Sanhedrin 3a)

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LEV961 It was taught: Whence is it derived that when you acquire, you shall acquire only from your fellow i.e., [giving him the first opportunity]? From: "And if you acquire from the hand of your fellow" (Torath Cohanim)

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LEV974 It was taught: "How is "ona'ah" estimated? [For example, charging] four kesef more than twenty-four kesef (a sela) [which the object is actually worth], i.e., a sixth above the actual value (Bava Metzia 49b)

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