Related%20passage for Bava Batra 172:7

ת"ש השוכר את הפועל לעשות עמו לגורן היום בדינר

for twelve sela'im, [every] <i>log</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seller, by specifying the price per kor and se'ah, has intimated his desire to sell either the entire kor or any fraction of it. ');">¹³</span> for a <i>sela'</i>. And, as R. Kahana said,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shab. 80b, Men. 87b. ');">¹⁸</span> 'there were marks in the <i>hin</i> [of the Temple].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Marking off a quarter. a third, and a half of the hin, required respectively as a meal offering for the lamb, the ram, and the bullock. ');">¹⁹</span> so, in this case also, there were marks on the measures.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Every log was marked off, so that when the commodity measured reached any of the marks it might be regarded as having 'filled the measure', because each mark represented a complete unit. ');">²⁰</span> Come and hear! [It has been taught: In the case where a man] hired a labourer to work for him at the harvesting season for a denarius a day. [and paid him his wage in advance].

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