Midrash for Bekhorot 81:61
אמר אביי
liable to the penalty of death? - The reference here is to cases where there is only one witness or where the owners confess.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The animal is not stoned in such circumstances, as the law is that one who confesses an act which entails a fine is exempt from the fine; and the stoning of an animal is a fine on its owner.');"><sup>36</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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