Reference for Arakhin 59:7

א"ל אביי לרב יוסף

But if there were no mouse, whence would the hole [have its theft]? - It is reasonable that we penalize him with whom the forbidden stuff is [found].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The penalty is inflicted where the corpus delicti, here the unlawfully sold slave, is to be found.');">⁴</span>

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