Midrash for Chullin 141:39
טומאה רצוצה בוקעת ועולה עד לרקיע מציל על טהרה שבתוכו מלטמא
<sup>26</sup> breaks through upwards to the sky"> , nevertheless protects any clean matter that is within it from becoming unclean,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Num. XIX, 15; and V. supra 25a.');"><sup>27</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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