Midrash for Sanhedrin 43:17
א"ר יוחנן ואיתימא ר' אלעזר אין אשתו של אדם מתה אלא אם כן מבקשין ממנו ממון ואין לו שנאמר (משלי כב, כז) ואם אין לך לשלם למה יקח משכבך מתחתיך
'When courage fails thethief, he becomes virtuous,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So taunting him with impotence. ');"><sup>29</sup></span> she gibed. Then he said to them [his servants],'Call me Bath-Sheba'. And we read: And Bath-Sheba went to the king into thechamber.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings I, 15. ');"><sup>30</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"shall you place over yourself a king": But is it not already written "Place shall you place over yourself a king"? Why, then, "shall you place over yourself a king"? That his awe be over you — whence it was ruled: One is not permitted to ride on his horse or to sit on his throne or to make use of his sceptre or to see him naked or when he is having his hair cut or when he is in the bathhouse.
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Sifrei Devarim
mishneh": This tells me only of mishneh Torah ("the repetition of the Torah," i.e., the book of Devarim). Whence do I derive (that the mitzvah applies also) to the rest of the Torah? From (Ibid. 19) "to heed all the words of this Torah." If so, why is it written "the mishneh of this Torah"? Because it (i.e., the script) is destined to change (viz. Ezra 4:7 and Daniel 5:8).
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