Midrash for Bava Metzia 65:6
תנא ומדדה עמו עד פרסה אמר רבה בר בר חנה ונוטל שכר:
Hence it is obvious [that it means]. If unloaded, there is no obligation [to help to load it] without payment, but for remuneration. Now, whom do you know to hold this view? The Rabbis!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mishnah supra 32a. as interpreted in the Gemara. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 22:1) "You shall not see (the ox of your brothers or his lamb straying and [you shall] ignore them. Return shall you return them to your brother." "You shall not see": I might think, even if he were a mil away; it is, therefore, written (Shemoth 23:4) "If you encounter (the ox of your foe, etc.") If "If you encounter," I might think, literally; it is, therefore, written "You shall not see." How is this to be resolved? The sages estimated one-seventh of a mil, a ris.
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