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אמרי דבי ר' ינאי לא מה אתם בני ברית אף שלוחכם בני ברית
— In the school of R. Jannai they replied: No! [The proper inference from the word 'also' is]: Just as you are sons of the Covenant, so must your agents be sons of the Covenant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And a slave was regarded as a 'son of the Covenant', on the strength of Deut. XXIX, 9ff., Ye are standing all this day before the Lord your God … from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water … to enter into the covenant of the Lord. Thus a slave can be an agent. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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