There is to [the law of] arachin an [element of] leniency, as well as an [element of] stringency; [there is] to [the law of] the ancestral field an [element of] leniency, as well as an [element of] stringency; [there is] to [the law of] the muad bull that killed a slave an [element of] leniency, as well as an [element of] stringency; [and there are] to [the laws of] the violator, the seducer, and the defamer [elements of] leniency, as well as [elements of] stringency. There is to [the law of] arachin an [element of] leniency, as well as an [element of] stringency. How so? Whether he vowed the erech of the handsomest in Israel or the ugliest in Israel, he gives fifty selaim. But if he said, ‘I take upon myself [to give] his worth’ — he must give his worth.