Commentary for Sanhedrin 216:9

צוהר תעשה לתיבה א"ר יוחנן אמר לו הקב"ה לנח קבע בה אבנים טובות ומרגליות כדי שיהיו מאירות לכם כצהרים

Have then beasts marital relationship? — R. Samuel b. Nahman said in R. Jonathan's name: It means of those with which no sin had been committed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 108a; i.e., those which had mated only with their kind. ');">¹⁶</span> Whence did he [Noah] know? — R. Hisda said: He led them past the ark; those which the ark accepted had certainly not been the object of sin; whilst those which it rejected had certainly been the object of sin. R. Abbahu said: [He took only] those which came of their own accord.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Only such coming as fulfilled the above condition. ');">¹⁷</span>

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