Commentary for Sanhedrin 30:4

לא ס"ד דכתיב (שמות כא, ל) אם כופר יושת עליו ואי ס"ד בר קטלא הוא והכתיב (במדבר לה, לא) לא תקחו כופר לנפש רוצח

&nbsp; is to [indicate] an easier death, i.e., to commute death by the sword to death by strangulation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For by an unspecified death, strangulation is meant (infra 52b). ');">⁷</span> Now, on the view that strangulation is a severer death,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As held by R. Simeon, cf. infra 49b. ');">⁸</span>

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