Commentary for Yevamot 121:3

(יונה ד, יא) אשר יש בה הרבה משתים עשרה רבוא אדם אשר לא ידע בין ימינו לשמאלו (ובהמה רבה) משום בהמה

Wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right and their left hand!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jonah IV, 11. Cur, edd. add in parentheses 'and much cattle', Here also [H] is the original word rendered persons, though it refers to the idolaters of Nineveh. ');">⁶</span> — This is due [to the mention of] cattle.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The conclusion of the verse reads, and also much cattle. Cf, supra n. 4. ');">⁷</span> Whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXI, 19, speaking of the slain Midianites; which proves that the corpses of idolaters also impart levitical uncleanness! ');">⁸</span>

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