[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!’’?

[If] he ate two portions of cheilev in one lapse of awareness, he is liable to only one chatas. [But] if he ate cheilev, blood, leftover offerings, and piggul in one lapse of awareness, he is liable for each one. In this, many kinds are more stringent than one kind. But [in the following], one kind is more stringent than many kinds: If he ate half an olive’s bulk, and again ate half an olive’s bulk — [if they were] of one kind, he is liable; of two kinds, he is exempt.