Midrash for Sanhedrin 68:7
הא איתמר עלה אמר אביי אף לדברי ר"ע נמי אינו חייב אלא אחת דאמר קרא (דברים יב, יד) שם תעלה עולותיך ושם תעשה ערבינהו רחמנא לכולהו עשיות:
that is R. Ishmael's view. R. Akiba said: [Scripture adds] Or a sacrifice:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. verse 8. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> this is to include him who sprinkles. Thus, What do both include? — Sprinkling; one Master deducing it from the words: Blood shall be imputed, the other from the words: Or a sacrifice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus it illustrates 'one law drawn derived from two Scriptural verses.' ');"><sup>14</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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