Midrash for Chullin 141:18
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Clean cattle come under 'clean wild animals' with regard to 'formation'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the story of the Creation the expression 'formed' is used both in the creation of man (Gen. II, 7) and in the creation of wild animals (ibid. 19) , but not in the creation of cattle. From the similarity of expression is derived a similarity of law, namely, that if a woman miscarried, bringing forth a human form or something resembling an animal, she is unclean as after a childbirth. Now this law should not have applied to cattle (i.e., an abortion resembling cattle) were it not for the principle that the term 'wild animals' includes cattle.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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