Midrash for Bava Metzia 59:8
אי הכי אפילו רישא נמי
and it [accidentally] did some threshing, it is fit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To be used to make atonement for a murder by an unknown person. V. Deut. XXI, 1-9. The heifer had to be one 'which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke' (v. 3). Though this heifer had done some threshing, it remains fit, because it had been taken into the team to feed, not to thresh. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
Vessels of wood — he uses them so that they do not mold.
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Sifrei Devarim
"and (you shall) ignore them": Sometimes you do ignore them and sometimes you do not ignore them. How so? If he were a Cohein and it were in the cemetery, (which a Cohein is forbidden to enter), or if he were an elder and it were beneath his dignity, or if his labor were greater than that of his neighbor, he is exempt, it being written "and you ignore": Sometimes you do ignore and sometimes you do not. (See #222).
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