[If] they said to him: ‘‘You ate forbidden fat,’’ he brings a chatas. [If] a witness says: ‘‘He ate,’’ and [another] witness says: ‘‘He did not eat,’’ [or if] a woman says: ‘‘He ate,’’ and [another] woman says: ‘‘He did not eat,’’ he must bring an asham talui. [If] a witness says: ‘‘He ate,’’ and he says: ‘‘I did not eat,’’ he is exempt. [If] two say: ‘‘He ate,’’ and he says: ‘‘I did not eat,’’ R’ Meir declares him liable. Said R’ Meir: If two can bring him to the more severe death penalty, can they not bring him to the lighter penalty of an offering? They said to him: What if he would want to say: ‘‘I was an intentional transgressor!’’?