ט אלא אמר רב חסדא שמואל קרא אשכח ודרש (יחזקאל מה, יב) והשקל עשרים גרה עשרים שקלים חמשה ועשרים שקלים עשרה וחמשה שקל המנה יהיה לכם
9 [then for the same reason one should] not [be allowed to increase] even [by] a sixth! But if [it be said], because of the overcharge,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An overcharge of less than a sixth does not entitle any of the parties to cancel the sale. Only the overcharge is to be returned. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> so that the entire purchase should not have to be cancelled;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the increase in the weights will be more than a sixth, the seller, who did not know of this, and accepted the old price, would be losing more than a sixth and would, therefore, be entitled to cancel the entire sale. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> surely, Raba said: One may withdraw [from any transaction in which] anything [had been sold] by measure, weight or number, even [if the overcharge was] less than [the legal limit of] overcharge!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since, in such cases, one may withdraw even when the overcharge was less than a sixth, nothing is gained by limiting the permitted increase in weights to a sixth. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> But [if it be said that the reason why no more than a sixth may be added to weights is] that the dealer may not incur any loss;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A dealer may, in accordance with what has been said before, make a profit of one sixth. When weights are increased by a sixth and a dealer sells at the old price, he does not lose thereby any of his principal, since what he loses by taking the old price and giving the increased weight, he makes up by the profit he gains on selling at a price which is higher by a sixth than his cost price. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> [has this law, then, been made, it may be retorted, on the assumption that a dealer] must incur no loss [but also] requires no profit? 'Buy and sell [at no profit] and be called a merchant!' — But, said R. Hisda: Samuel found a Scriptural text and expounded it. [It is written], <i>And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, ten and five shekels, shall be your maneh</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XLV, 12. ');"><sup>19</sup></span>