Reference for Bava Batra 333:4

אמר אביי מתלת ועד עשר לא לכתוב בסוף שיטה דלמא מזייף וכתב ואי איתרמי ליה ניהדריה לדבוריה תרין תלתא זימני אי אפשר דלא מיתרמי ליה באמצע שיטה

and if this occurred, the sentence should be repeated two [or] three times, [since] it [would then] be impossible that [the numbers] should not [once] occur in the middle of a line.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Should forgery be committed on the number at the end of the line, this would be detected by the number that appeared in the middle of the lowest of these lines, which is always taken as the determining factor. V, our Mishnah, 165b. ');">¹⁹</span> In a certain [deed]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of a sale. ');">²⁰</span> it was entered,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'written'. ');">²¹</span> 'a third of an orchard'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The deed read: 'I sold to N.N. in my garden a third of (lit., 'in') my orchard,' [H]. ');">²²</span> [The buyer] subsequently<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he went'. ');">²³</span> erased the top, and the base of the Beth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the word [H], thus changing the [H] into a [H]. ');">²⁴</span>

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