A Day-Old Ram Is Already Called a Ram

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 130:14

"And the rams of your flock I have not eaten" (Genesis 31:38). Rava said: an ox a day old is called an ox, as it is written (Leviticus 22:27) "an ox or a sheep or a goat, when it is born." A ram a day old is called a ram, as it says, "and the rams of your flock I have not eaten." It was rams that he did not eat -- but lambs he did eat? Rather, learn from this that a ram a day old is called a ram.

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