Commentary for Bava Kamma 86:20

אמרי לא עבד אם עבד לא דריש כופר אם כופר דריש

[It implies] that a slave killed unintentionally is subject to the same law as a slave, killed intentionally? If that is so, why did Resh Lakish say that where an ox killed a slave unintentionally there would be exemption from the thirty <i>shekels</i>? He replied: Would you confute one person's view by citing another?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As R. Johanan and Resh Lakish might perhaps have differed on this point. ');">¹⁷</span>

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