Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 6:6

כָּל הָאֻמָּנִין, שׁוֹמְרֵי שָׂכָר הֵן. וְכֻלָּן שֶׁאָמְרוּ, טֹל אֶת שֶׁלְּךָ וְהָבֵא מָעוֹת, שׁוֹמֵר חִנָּם. שְׁמֹר לִי וְאֶשְׁמֹר לָךְ, שׁוֹמֵר שָׂכָר. שְׁמֹר לִי, וְאָמַר לוֹ הַנַּח לְפָנָי, שׁוֹמֵר חִנָּם:

All craftsmen [(contractors, who undertake to do a job in their homes)] are hired watchers. [They are liable for theft and loss (of the vessels entrusted with them). For by reason of the benefit of being able to hold them as security for payment, they become hired watchers over them.] And all of them who say: "Take what is yours [For I have already finished my work and I am not holding it as security], and [after you take it], bring money" — [From that time on,] he is an unpaid watcher. (If one says to another:) "Watch (this) for me [today], and I will watch for you" [tomorrow], he is a hired watcher. [But if he says: "Watch this for me, and I will watch that for you in its place," both (watching) at the same time, this is called "watching with the owner" (see Exodus 22:14), and he is not liable.] (If one said:) "Watch (this) for me," and the other said: "Put it down before me," he is an unpaid watcher. [But if he just said: "Put it down before you," or merely: "Put it down," he is not even an unpaid watcher, not having undertaken to watch it at all.]

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