Quoting%20commentary for Sanhedrin 117:18

כל מצוה שנאמרה לבני נח ונישנית בסיני לזה ולזה נאמרה

— There is nothing permitted to an Israelite yet forbidden to a heathen. Is there not? But what of a beautiful woman?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 57a. ');">¹⁶</span> — There it is because the heathens were not authorised to conquer.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Palestine. For even the Israelites were permitted this only in the course of their conquest of Palestine, but not otherwise. ');">¹⁷</span> But what of a thing worth less than a <i>Perutah</i>?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The theft of which is regarded as an offence by heathens but not by Jews. V. supra 57a. ');">¹⁸</span> — There it is because the heathens do not forgive.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Actually, it would be theft in the case of a Jew too, but that Jews are not particular about such a trifle, and readily forgive. Heathens, however, do not forgive, and therefore it is theft in their case. ');">¹⁹</span> 'Every precept which was given to the sons of Noah and repeated at Sinai was meant for both [Noachides and Israelites]'.

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