Talmud for Pesachim 1:4

רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, אוֹכְלִין כָּל חָמֵשׁ, וְשׂוֹרְפִין בִּתְחִלַּת שֵׁשׁ. וְרַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אוֹכְלִין כָּל אַרְבַּע, וְתוֹלִין כָּל חָמֵשׁ, וְשׂוֹרְפִין בִּתְחִלַּת שֵׁשׁ:

R. Meir says: We eat all five (hours on the fourteenth) and burn it in the beginning of the sixth. [Even though by Torah law the entire sixth hour is permitted, the rabbis decreed against (eating on) it, lest they err and come to confuse the seventh hour with the sixth; but they would not come to confuse the seventh with the fifth, for which reason it is permitted.] And R. Yehudah says: We eat all four, suspend all of the fifth, and burn it at the beginning of the sixth [and we do not eat on the fifth, a decree by reason of the possibility of a cloudy day on which they might err and confuse the seventh hour with the fifth. However, it is not necessary to burn it, and it can be fed to one's beast. But in the sixth hour, even derivation of benefit is forbidden, a decree by reason of the seventh. The halachah is in accordance with R. Yehudah.

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