Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Related for Bekhorot 70:14

בכור בי כהן צריך שנים מן השוק להעיד עליו

Rabbi says: Even the evidence of ten people is not accepted if they are members of his household.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereas even one independent person is trustworthy in these matters, or according to R. Joshua, two independent persons. Now the first Tanna mentioned above is in agreement with the view of R. Joshua. for the first Tanna holds that shepherds who are priests, whether with Israelite or priestly employers, are not trustworthy, but independent priests are trustworthy, even as regards firstlings of priests. R. Meir says that even an independent priest is suspected, a view which is opposed to that of R. Joshua. Rabbenu Gershom interprets this as follows: The first Tanna who says that Israelite shepherds even in the employ of priests are trustworthy does not agree with R. Joshua's view, for according to the latter only independent priests are trustworthy. But R. Meir agrees with R. Joshua that we only suspect the priest's testimony where there is dependence on others, but the evidence of two independent priests is accepted.');"><sup>7</sup></span>

Tosefta Demai

One who sends fruits to his friend, and he [presumably the friend] decides to return it, he comports himself [vis-a-vis the returned fruit] according to how it was (i.e., its prior status). Abba Shaul says, "I would be concerned lest it be switched." Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel says, "If he has a sharecropper who knows how to tithe, but he (i.e., the landowner) does not trust him as to tithes, and he (i.e., the sharecropper) brought his fruits to him, and he said, yours (i.e., your share) are tithed, he is believed [in this instance]." Rebbi says, "He is not trustworthy [according to the principle] that one who is suspected regarding [one] matter may neither adjudicate nor testify" (Bekh. 30a:3).
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