Related%20passage for Shabbat 139:4

יכול עשאן כולן בהעלם אחד אינו חייב אלא אחת ת"ל (שמות לד, כא) בחריש ובקציר תשבות ועדיין אני אומר על חרישה ועל הקצירה חייב שתים ועל כולן אינו חייב אלא אחת ת"ל לא תבערו אש הבערה בכלל היתה ולמה יצאת להקיש אליה ולומר לך מה הבערה שהיא אב מלאכה וחייבין עליה בפני עצמה אף כל שהוא אב מלאכה חייבין עליה בפני עצמה

why is this stated?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is apparently superfluous, being included in the general prohibition of labour. ');">¹⁰</span> Because it is said, And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded&nbsp;… Six days shall work be done:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 1f. ');">¹¹</span> 'words' [debarim], 'the words' [ha-debarim], 'these [eleh] are the words': this indicates the thirty-nine labours taught to Moses at Sinai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Words' implies at least two; 'the' (Heb. v ) is regarded as an extension, whereby two is extended to three; 'these' (Heb. vkt ) is given its numerical value, which is thirty-six, thus totalling thirty-nine in all. (Hebrew letters are also numbers.) — The existence of a large body of oral law, stated verbally to Moses or generally known, was assumed. V. Weiss, Dor, I, and supra p. 123, n. 7. ');">¹²</span>

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