[If one says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] the value of my arm’ — we evaluate him [to determine] how much he is worth with the arm and how much he is worth without the arm. This is the stringency of vows [of worth] over arachin-vows. And the stringency of arachin-vows over vows [of worth] is in what manner? [If] one said, ‘I take upon myself [to give] my erech,’ and he died, the heirs must give [it]. [But if one said,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] my worth,’ and he died, the heirs need not give [it], for the dead have no worth. [If one says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] the erech of my arm,’ or, ‘the erech of my leg’ — he has said nothing. [But if one says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] the erech of my head,’ or ‘the erech of my liver’ — he must give the erech of his entire self. This is the rule: [For] anything upon which one’s life depends, he gives the erech of his entire self.

[If one says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] half my erech’ — he gives half his erech; [but if he says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] the erech of half of myself’ — he gives his whole erech. [If one says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] half my worth’ — he gives half his worth; [but if he says,] ‘I take upon myself [to give] the worth of half of myself’ — he gives his whole worth. This is the rule: [For] anything upon which one’s life depends, he must give the erech of his entire self.