Finally we are introduced to a new Mishna. It teaches us about thefts that result in the four or fivefold payment even when that is not intuitive. If a person steals an animal on Shabbat, if a person steals an animal and sells it for idol worship, or if a person steals an animal and slaughters it on Yom Kippur, he pays four or five times the animal's worth.
Why doesn't a person who commits these crimes face the punishment of karet? In each of these cases, the Gemara teaches, one of the 39 actions forbidden on Shabbat has not been exactly broken. Thus there is no need to cancel the four or fivefold payment (which would happen if the more serious punishment of karet were enacted).
Today's Gemara uses two different examples of sexual relationships to better understand these cases.
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