Midrash for Sanhedrin 68:4
אלא אמר רב אשי כדתניא (ויקרא יז, ד) דם יחשב לאיש ההוא דם שפך לרבות את הזורק דברי רבי ישמעאל
One Master deduces this from the word 'lambs'; the other, from 'burnt offering'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus, this Baraitha illustrates one law drawn from two Biblical verses.' ');"><sup>7</sup></span> But did not R. Adda b. Ahabah say: They differed with respect to a fowl burnt offering which had been disqualified: he who deduced it [the scope of the law] from 'lambs', holds that only lambs are included,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Amongst the objects which, though disqualified, may not be taken back when once laid upon the altar. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"and by their word shall every contention and every plague-spot be (ruled upon."): Contentions are being compared to plague-spots, and plague-spots to contentions. Just as plague-spots are (ruled upon) only in the daytime, so, contentions. And just as contentions are not (ruled upon) by kin, so, plague-spots. If so, why not say: Just as contentions require three (judges), so, plague-spots.
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