Si uno trae productos de Galilea a Judá o hace una peregrinación [y trae productos] a Jerusalén, puede comer [de los productos] hasta que llegue al lugar adonde iba, y también al regresar. El rabino Meir dice, hasta que llega al lugar de la parada. Y los comerciantes que venden en las ciudades pueden comer hasta que lleguen al lugar donde duermen. El rabino Yehudah dice que la primera casa [en la ciudad donde dormirá debe considerarse como si] fuera su casa.
Tosefta Maasrot
The donkey-drivers (i.e., merchants) and the homeowners (בעלי הבתים not בעלי הגתים, see GR"A) that are traveling from town to town -- they may eat and are exempt [from tithes] until they arrive at the same place (cf. Maasr. 2:3, "the place that they intend to spend the night"). [Therefore,] if the homeowner singles out a house that is before them, if they sleep there they are liable, and if not they are exempt from tithing.
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Tosefta Maasrot
It so happened that Rabbi Yehoshua was travelling to the home of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakki in Beror Chayil, and the townsfolk brought [Demai] figs to them. They said to him (not "he said," see Lieberman), "Must we tithe these?" He said to them, "If we sleep [here], we are liable to tithe, and if not, we are exempt from tithing." § [Returning to the discussion in the previous section,] once they (i.e., the donkey-driver and the homeowner) arrive at their [designated] sleeping place, even [if it is] two hours [away], they need to tithe [at that point]. Rabbi Meir says, [if] they arrived at the place [that they intended] to spend the Sabbath (Maasr. 2:3), even [if it takes them until] the second day [to arrive], they are exempt from tithing [until that point].
