Midrash for Bekhorot 71:73
אבל הכא כיון דחשידי חשידי
What is the reason? 'People are not presumed to tell a lie which is likely to be found out'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'likely to be revealed', And here the Israelite can be asked. V. R.H. 22b, Zeb. 93b.');"><sup>40</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 15:20) "And if there be in it a blemish": This tells me only of an animal that was born unblemished and became blemished. Whence do I derive (the same for) one that was born blemished! From "every blemish."
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