Midrash for Bekhorot 81:42
(שמות ט, י) ויהי שחין
is where it is dry inside and moist outside, for R'Joshua B'Levi said: The boil which the Holy One, blessed be He, brought upon the Egyptians was moist outside and dry inside, for it is written: And it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. IX, 10 The word in the text is connected with 'pouring forth', implying something wet and moist.');"><sup>26</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
Whence do we derive (the same for animals that are) scrofulous, warty, scabbied, old, sick, or malodorous? From "every." I might think that they could be slaughtered (and eaten) outside Jerusalem; it is, therefore, written "lame or blind': "lame" and "blind" were in the category (of blemished animals). Why did they leave that category (for special mention)? To make them the basis for a comparison, viz.: Just as "lame" and "blind" are distinct in being external blemishes, which do not heal, so, all (blemishes which render a bechor subject to slaughtering and eating outside Jerusalem) must be of that kind.
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Sifrei Devarim
Whence do I derive (the same for) one that is sick, old, or malodorous? From "any unseemly thing."
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