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- ↑ Nahum M. Sarna, Chaim Potok, The JPS Torah Commentary: Leviticus Jewish Publication Society 1989 Page 113 "In 22:26f., for example, in a formulation identical to that found here, we read that the offspring of large and small cattle may not be "slaughtered" until the eighth day after birth, at which time they first become acceptable as sacrifices. In keeping ..."
- ↑ Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon "Showr ...This is the general word for one of the ox tribe... without distinction of age or sex"
- ↑ Ben Zion Wacholder The New Damascus Document: The Midrash On The Eschatological Torah 2007 Page 296 "And an ox or a lamb with its offspring you may not slaughter at the same time. And you shall not strike the mother with her offspring. (11QT 52:5–7a) This text diverges from Talmudic tradition. According to the sages, the prohibition against slaughtering a young calf extends from birth to the seventh day of its life (Hullin 78:2). However, Temple Scroll, by linking Lev 22:28 and a paraphrase of Gen 32:12 which contains the phrase ... in the context of Jacob fearing that Esau might strike him together with all of his clan, suggests that b-yom ehad means “at the same time." In other words it is prohibited to slaughter a fetus when it is in its mother's womb."
- ↑ Ben Zion Wacholder The New Damascus Document: The Midrash On The Eschatological Torah 2007 Page 296 "3.2.2.9.6.2.7. The Status of a Fetus (4Q270 F2ii:15b) As we have stated above, the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal differs from rabbinic tradition which sanctions it. On this ban, see also 11QT 52:5–7a: yl hmh hbowt yk twalm ..."
- ↑ William R. G. Loader The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality 2009 - Page 140 "... the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal in what immediately precedes (ii.15), an application of Deut 22:6, as in 11QTa/11Q19 52.5, there, applied to sacrificial slaughter, and similarly in 4QMMTB 36-38, and to 11QTa/11Q19 ..."
- ↑ John Kampen, Moshe J. Bernstein Reading 4QMMT: new perspectives on Qumran law and history 1996 - Page 40 "The uniqueness of the Qumran treatment, according to Qimron's restoration, is the association of Lev 22:28 with the prohibition against slaughtering a pregnant animal and the requirement to slaughter a fetus found alive in the womb of its "
- ↑ Jacob Milgrom, David Pearson Wright, David Noel Freedman Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom 1995 "... there is apparently also a prohibition of consuming the young of an animal found alive within the womb of its mother. The young is regarded as a distinct animal requiring its own ritual slaughter.7"
- ↑ Greek Septuagint Leviticus 22:28 καὶ μόσχον ἢ πρόβατον αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ παιδία αὐτῆς οὐ σφάξεις ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ
- ↑ Thayer Greek Lexicon moschos "Septuagint chiefly for a bull, especially a young bull, then for cattle, for an ox or a cow, for a calf"
- ↑ Commentary on Mishna Chullin 5:1 et al.
- ↑ Commentary to Leviticus 22:28
- ↑ Commentary to Leviticus 22:28
- ↑ Yoreh Deah 16:2
- ↑ Talmud Hullin 83a