Related%20passage for Pesachim 171:9

ותסברא והא קתני גגין הללו אין אוכלין שם קדשי קדשים ואין שוחטין שם קדשים קלים ואלא קשיא גגו קדש אמר רב חמא בר גוריא לאותן ב' אמות

by half a fingerbreadth, while that on the south-east corner exceeded it [sc. the first cubit] by half a fingerbreadth, so that it exceeded [the cubit] of Moses by a fingerbreadth. And why was one large and one small?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why not simply the standard cubit of Moses?');">¹⁸</span> So that the workers might receive [contracts] by the small [measure] and deliver [the work] by the large one, to avoid liability to a trespass-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., they contracted to build a certain length in terms of the standard cubit; nevertheless they completed their contract according to the length of the larger measure. The purpose was to preclude the possibility of benefiting from the Sanctuary over and above their exact due, which would involve them in trespass.');">¹⁹</span>

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