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Sifrei Devarim 295

(Devarim 21:15) "so that your days be prolonged": This is one of all the mitzvoth of the Torah, whose reward is "at its side." Now does this not follow a fortiori , viz.: If (honesty in the weighing of) a dried fig, a hundred of which can easily be bought for an Italian issar , is rewarded by length of days, then other mitzvoth, which entail far greater cost, how much more so! ( Ibid . 16) "For the abomination of the L-rd your G-d, etc." I might think that he is not liable until he transgresses all of them; it is, therefore, written "all who do these ," (connoting) even one of them. "all who do wrong": From here they ruled: Fruits should not be intermixed, not even new ones with old ones, not even (to be sold) a sa'ah for a dinar when they are worth a dinar and a treisith . He should not intermix them and sell them a sa'ah for a dinar. "all who do wrong": It goes by five appellations: "wrong," "hated," "abhorrent," "banned," "abomination."

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