Midrash for Bava Metzia 175:8
א"ה בעל הבית נמי ניחייב בעל הבית עיניו בתאנתו ולוקח עיניו במקחו
and does it not mean even in the field?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For just as the employee eats it on the field, by implication, if a purchaser desires to eat thereof on the field, he is liable, though it has not yet seen the front of the house or the courtyard. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
And whence do we derive (the same for) what he sells? From "which goes forth from the field." They said: Why were the shops of Bnei Chanan laid waste two years before (the destruction of) Eretz Yisrael? Because they exempted their fruits from the tithe, expounding "Tithe shall you tithe … and you shall eat" — and not what you sell; "the produce of your seed" — and not (that of) the buyer.
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