Midrash for Makkot 45:6
ושתי רצועות וכו': תנא של חמור כדדריש ההוא גלילאה עליה דרב חסדא (ישעיהו א, ג) ידע שור קונהו וחמור אבוס בעליו ישראל לא ידע וגו' אמר הקב"ה יבא מי שמכיר אבוס בעליו ויפרע ממי שאינו מכיר אבוס בעליו:
And two straps. etc.: It was taught in a baraisa, of donkey.... As a certain Galelien expounded to Rav Chisdah. (Issiah 1,3) The ox knows its master and the donkey knows its master's trough. Isreal does not know etc." Hashem says let the one who recognizes his master's trough come and exact punishment from the one who does not recognize his master's trough.
Sifrei Devarim
I might think, (that they were steeped in blood) even after they received it; it is, therefore, written "only" (a term of limitation). Once they received it, they observed it with joy. [Rabban Gamliel says: It states "Only strengthen yourself not to eat the blood". If Scripture exhorted us so concerning the "lightest" mitzvah of the Torah, (not to eat) blood, how much more so are we thus exhorted concerning the other mitzvoth of the Torah!]
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Sifrei Devarim
(Rabban Gamliel says: It states "Only strengthen yourself not to eat the blood". If Scripture exhorted us so concerning the "lightest" mitzvah of the Torah, (not to eat) blood, how much more so are we thus exhorted concerning the other mitzvoth of the Torah!)
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