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יש חורש תלם אחד וחייב עליו משום שמונה לאוין: החורש בשור וחמור, והן מוקדשין, וכלאים בכרם, ובשביעית, ויום טוב, וכהן ונזיר בבית הטומאה.
Apropos the case where one receives several sets of lashes for performing a single action, the Mishnah continues: There is one who plows a single furrow and is liable to receive lashes for violating 8 prohibitions. How so? For plowing with an ox and a donkey, in violation of the prohibition: “You should not plow with an ox and a donkey together” (Deuteronomy 22:10); and they are consecrated, and therefore he is guilty of misuse of consecrated property; and he is plowing diverse kinds in a vineyard; and it is during the Sabbatical Year, when it is prohibited to work the land; and it is on a Festival, when plowing is a prohibited labor; and he is both a priest and a nazirite and is performing the plowing in a place of impurity imparted by a corpse, which is prohibited for both a priest (see Leviticus 21:1) and a nazirite (see Numbers 6:6).
חנניא בן חכינאי אומר: אף הלובש כלאים. אמרו לו: אינו השם. אמר להם: אף הנזיר לא הוא השם.
Ḥananya ben Ḥakhinai says: If he was wearing a garment consisting of diverse kinds of wool and linen while plowing he is also flogged for violating that prohibition. The rabbis said to him: That is not a prohibition in the same category as the others, as it is not connected to the act of plowing. Ḥananya ben Ḥakhinai said to them: According to that criterion, the fact that he is a nazirite is also not in the same category, as a nazirite and a priest are not flogged for plowing; rather, they are flogged for contracting impurity imparted by a corpse.