Commentary for Bava Kamma 107:8

ולרב דאמר בור שחייבה עליו תורה להבלו ולא לחבטו בין לרבנן בין לרבי יהודה כלים בני הבלא נינהו אמרי בחדתי דמיפקעי מהבלא

should not be included.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence ass was inserted to include also animals not eligible to be sacrificed upon the altar. ');">¹⁴</span> If [on the other hand] the Divine Law had [only] 'ass', I might have thought that an animal which was subject to the sanctity of firstborn<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As was the case with ass; cf. Ex. XIII, 13. ');">¹⁵</span>

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