Study Shevuot folio 25A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: We are speaking of sin-offerings when we assert that that Mishnah lists only prohibitions for which one is liable to receive karet for their intentional violation.
Ravina offered a different answer. He said: When the tanna teaches this case, he lists only those prohibitions that apply specifically to items that are edible. With regard to an oath, it is a matter that applies also to items that are not edible, and he does not teach it in that Mishnah.
The Talmud asks: But doesn’t that Mishnah include in its list the prohibition against deriving benefit from the misuse of consecrated property, which applies even to consecrated wood and stones?
The Talmud answers: Rather, when the tanna teaches this case, he lists those prohibitions that apply to tangible matters. With regard to an oath, it is something that also applies to intangible matters, such as: I will sleep, or: I will not sleep, and the tanna does not teach it in that Mishnah.
Mishnah: If one unwittingly takes a false oath about the past or breaks an oath he made about the future, both if it is an oath that addresses matters that concern oneself and if it is an oath that addresses matters that concern others, he is liable to bring a sliding-scale offering for an oath on