Midrash for Chullin 141:3
חבל על בן עזאי שלא שימש את רבי ישמעאל
Whence do we infer that wild animals are included under the term 'cattle'? - For it is written: These are the cattle which we may eat: the ox, the sheep [and the goat,] the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XIV, 4, 5, under the heading 'cattle', , are specified the ox and the sheep and also the hart and the gazelle and the latter two are of vhj the class , 'wild animals'. vhj');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 14:4) "This is the beast that you may eat: the ox, the lamb of sheep, and the kid of goats, the hart, the gazelle, and the fallow deer" — whence we derive that animals (the last three) are in the category of "beast."
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