Commentary for Shevuot 94:11

שני מלוין ושני לווין ושני שטרות היינו פלוגתייהו מלוה ולוה ושני שטרות יד בעל השטר על התחתונה

- Raba said: The workmen swear to the householder in the presence of the shopkeeper, so that they may be ashamed because of him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbi did change his mind, and both the shopkeeper as well as the workmen, take the oath to the householder; when he states that they swear to the shopkeeper, he means, in the presence of the shopkeeper: that may deter them from swearing falsely, for they might be ashamed to swear in front of him that they had not received their money, if in reality they had.');">²⁰</span> It was stated: If two sets of witnesses contradict each other, R'Huna said, this set may come by itself and bear testimony, and that set may come by itself and bear testimony;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the present case, of course, since the evidence is contradictory, the accused is exempt; but in any future case, each set is qualified to testify, for, since we do not know which of the two sets had testified falsely in the first case, we cannot disqualify either; but one witness of the first set together with one witness of the second set cannot combine to testify in any case, for one of them is certainly a false witness.');">²¹</span>

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