Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Sanhedrin 57:34

אמר חזקיה מניין שכל המוסיף גורע שנאמר (בראשית ג, ג) אמר אלהים לא תאכלו ממנו ולא תגעו בו

R. Ashi demurred: Theymight say: Though a plague last seven years, no one dies before his time!But, said R. Ashi, Nathan b. Mar Zutra told me, We warn them thus: Falsewitnesses are despised [even] by their own employers, as it is written, Andset two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness againsthim, saying, Thou didst curse God and theKing.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings XXI, 10. regarding Naboth. The contention is proved from the fact that the witnesses are called base fellows by Jezebel, their own employer. ');"><sup>30</sup></span>

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