Commentary for Bava Metzia 224:8
אי הכי אפי' עבר זמנו נמי אלמה תנן עבר זמנו אינו נשבע ונוטל חזקה אין בעל הבית עובר משום בל תלין
If so, let us award it [the wages] to him without an oath! — [The oath is] in order to appease the employer. Then let him pay him in the presence of witnesses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Rabbis should have enacted that workers must be paid in the presence of witnesses, with the result that if the employer pleads that he paid him without witnesses, the employee could then receive payment without swearing. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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