Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Midrash for Sotah 93:17

עד אחד אומר ראיתי את ההורג ועד אחד אומר לא ראית אשה אומרת ראיתי ואשה אומרת לא ראית היו עורפין עד אחד אומר ראיתי ושנים אומרים לא ראית היו עורפין שנים אומרים ראינו ואחד אומר להן לא ראיתם לא היו עורפין

should a child and woman thrust aside with the left hand and draw near with the right hand.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [One must not be too severe in chiding a child or reproving a wife lest they be driven to despair.] ');"><sup>30</sup></span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF THE MURDERER WAS DISCOVERED BEFORE THE HEIFER'S NECK WAS BROKEN, IT GOES FREE AND FEEDS WITH THE HERD; BUT IF AFTER THE HEIFER'S NECK WAS BROKEN, IT IS BURIED IN THAT PLACE BECAUSE IT CAME THERE FROM THE OUTSET IN CONNECTION WITH A MATTER OF DOUBT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The unknown murderer. ');"><sup>31</sup></span>

Sifrei Devarim

(Devarim 21:1) "If there be found a slain one on the earth": "If there be found": and not if there were generally found" — to exclude (its being found) near the border or near a city inhabited mostly by gentiles — where it was stated: When murderers proliferated, the breaking of the heifer's neck was abolished. When R. Elazar b. Dinai came, (otherwise known as Techinah b. Prishah), they began to call him "the son of the murderer."
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