Midrash for Sotah 93:2
אמר רבי חנינא בשביל ארבעים ושנים קרבנות שהקריב בלק מלך מואב הובקעו מישראל ארבעים ושנים ילדים איני
R. Hanina said: On account of the forty-two sacrifices which Balak, king of Moab, offered,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXIII, 1, 14, 29. ');"><sup>3</sup></span> were forty-two children cut off from Israel. But it is not so; for Rab Judah has said in the name of Rab: Always should a man occupy himself with Torah and the commandments even though it be not for their own sake,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without the expectation of reward. ');"><sup>4</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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