Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 85:37

לא לכתב רחמנא בבכור ותיתי מהנך מה להנך שכן קדושתן מרובה ונוהגין בפשוטין

And if the Divine Law had stated all [the blemishes] in connection with an animal, I might have thought that whatever makes an animal unfit makes a human being unfit, but the blemishes of a defective eyebrow or flat nose, which do not apply to an animal,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An animal does not possess eyebrows, nor has it a nose between its eyes so that a flat nose might render it unfit.');">²²</span>

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