Reference for Ketubot 66:3

אלא אמר רב יעקב מנהר פקוד משמיה דרבא מהכא (שמות כא, יט) אם יקום והתהלך בחוץ על משענתו ונקה המכה וכי תעלה על דעתך שזה מהלך בשוק וזה נהרג אלא מלמד שחובשין אותו ואי מית קטלינן ליה ואי לא מית שבתו יתן ורפא ירפא

Rather R. Jacob from Nehar Pekod said in the name of Rava: [It is to derived] from the following verse: [It is written,] “Should he get up and walk about on his staff then he that smote him shall be cleansed” (Exodus 21:19). Would you think that this one walks about in the market and that one should be killed? Rather it teaches that they imprison him; if he dies, they kill him; and if he does not die, “he shall pay for the loss of his time, and heal him.”

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