Workmen who are working for the consecrated fund — even though they stipulated maintenance with them, they shall not eat of the dried figs of the consecrated fund; and if they ate, they have committed trespass. Rather the consecrated fund gives them the price of their maintenance.
One who threshes vetch of the consecrated fund may muzzle the cow, as it is said (Deuteronomy 25:4), "You shall not muzzle an ox in its threshing" — a threshing that is fit for it.
One does not deconsecrate consecrated property upon work, but only upon money. How so? A craftsman who did work for the consecrated fund for a maneh — they do not give him a consecrated animal or a consecrated cloak as his wage until they deconsecrate them upon money; and after they have become unconsecrated they give them to the craftsman as his wage, if they wished. And they return and buy an animal from him out of the levy of the chamber.
When they build in the Sanctuary they do not take timbers and stones from the consecrated fund, and they do not build the building on the understanding that it is holy; rather they build the whole of it from unconsecrated property — a decree lest a man have benefit from the shade of the building, or lean upon a stone or a beam at the hour of the work. And after the building is completed they deconsecrate the money of the consecrated fund upon the building. And if the treasurers needed timbers for the holy work for that day alone, they buy them from the money of the consecrated fund, since they are not left standing for days, that we should be concerned about them lest a man lean upon them and commit trespass.
When they make an agreement with the craftsmen to build in the Sanctuary and in the courtyards, they agree with them upon so many cubits for so many sela, by a cubit of twenty fingerbreadths. And when they measure for them what they have built, they measure and reckon for them by a large cubit of twenty-four fingerbreadths, so that they may not come to trespass, since one is not exact in the measuring.