Midrash for Menachot 163:13
אמר לו רבי עקיבא וכי דנין אפשר משאי אפשר אמר לו אף על פי שאי אפשר ראייה גדולה היא ונלמד הימנה
BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, AND THOU SHALT SACRIFICE THE PASSOVER-OFFERING UNTO THE LORD THY GOD OF THE FLOCK AND THE HERD.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XVI, 2.');"><sup>23</sup></span> BUT IS NOT THE PASSOVER-OFFERING BROUGHT ONLY FROM THE LAMBS AND FROM THE GOATS? WHY THEN IS IT WRITTEN, OF THE FLOCK AND THE HERD?
Sifrei Devarim
"sheep and cattle": Does the Paschal offering not come from lambs and kids? If so, why "sheep and cattle"? Sheep for the Pesach offering and cattle for the festive offering (chagigah), and to compare all that comes from sheep and cattle to the Pesach, viz.: Just as Pesach is a mandatory offering and comes only from chullin (non-consecrated) animals, so all mandatory offerings must come from chullin.
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