Reference for Bava Kamma 125:2

א"כ נכתוב רחמנא חד פרטא

so that birds would not be included? — If so, the Divine Law should have inserted only one item in the specification.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Regarding objects possessing life. ');">³</span> But which item should the Divine Law have inserted? For were the Divine Law to have inserted only '<i>ox'</i> I might have suggested that an animal which was eligible to be sacrificed upon the altar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As was the case with ox. ');">⁴</span>

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