Mesorat%20hashas for Chullin 47:16

אמר קרא

and also, 'Whose neck was broken', thus emphasizing that the Heifer is rendered valid only by breaking its neck and not by slaughtering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the reading of MS.M.; v. Rashi. In cur. edd. only one verse is quoted in this final answer; v. Rashal. The injunction 'to break the neck' is repeated to indicate that this is the only method of killing the Heifer and no other is admissible. This answer is therefore in accordance with the accepted Rabbinic dictum: Wherever Scripture repeats an injunction it is meant to be indispensable.');">¹⁰</span>

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