Mesorat%20hashas for Shevuot 4:8

מַשְׁבִּיעַ אֲנִי עֲלֵיכֶם, אִם לֹא תָבֹאוּ וּתְעִידוּנִי שֶׁאָמַר אִישׁ פְּלוֹנִי לִתֶּן לִי מָאתַיִם זוּז וְלֹא נָתַן לִי, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ פְטוּרִים, שֶׁאֵין חַיָּבִין אֶלָּא עַל תְּבִיעַת מָמוֹן כְּפִקָּדוֹן:

"I beswear you if you do not come and testify for me that that man said he would give me two hundred zuz, and he did not," they are not liable. For they are liable only for a claim of money like a pledge, [it being written in respect to the oath of testimony (Leviticus 5:1): "sin," and, in respect to the oath over a pledge, "sin." Just as the oath over a pledge is for a claim of money owed him, so the oath of testimony must be for a claim of money owed him. And the above is not such a claim. For even if the other did say that he would give him two hundred zuz, this does not make him liable to do so.]

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