Commentary for Bekhorot 108:19

בקר וצאן הוא דאין מתעשרין מזה על זה אבל כבשים ועזים מתעשרין

Some there are who say: Said Raba: Even without [the text] 'the tenth' you could not say that large cattle and sheep are tithed one for the other, for the tithing of animals is compared to the tithing of grain; just as in the case of the tithing of grain you must not tithe one kind of gra for the other, so in the case of tithing of animals you must not tithe one for the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And this does not apply to lambs and goats because we have an amplification in 'and of the flock'. It is also appropriate that we should exclude cattle and sheep from tithing one another, since they are two distinct kinds of animals rather than lambs and goats which are akin, as shown e.g., by the fact that when one vows an animal from the flock, he can bring either a lamb or a goat (Rashi) .');">¹⁵</span>

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