וַיֹּ֨סֶף ע֜וֹד לְדַבֵּ֤ר אֵלָיו֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם אַרְבָּעִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה בַּעֲב֖וּר הָאַרְבָּעִֽים׃
At muli pa siyang nagsalita sa kaniya, at sinabi, “Marahil ay may masusumpungan doon na apatnapu.” At sinabi niya, “Hindi ko gagawin ito alang-alang sa apatnapu.”
Jerusalem Talmud Bava Metzia
HALAKHAH: “How is this? If he collected the produce from him,” etc. Rebbi Aḥa said, it is written: “For the earth was filled with oppression because of them.31Gen. 6:13. Gen. rabba 31(5), in the name of R. Ḥanina.” What was their oppression? If a person came carrying a box full of lupines they all asembled and each one was taking less than the worth of a peruṭah, a case which cannot be brought before the judges32The farmer in the end was left with nothing but so many thieves took only a minute amount that he did not have a case against anybody.. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, “much, much”33Gen. 6:5 about the generation of the flood; Gen. 18:20 about Sodom and Gomorrha, identical expressions. Gen. rabba 28(3); R. Berekhiah in the name of R. Joḥanan.. The acts of these were identical to the acts of those.