If He Rises and Walks and the Sun as a Sign

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 331:5

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"If he rise again and walk abroad" (Exodus 21:19). I might hear that this means within the house; therefore Scripture says "abroad." If "abroad," I might hear it even if he is wasting away; therefore Scripture says "if he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff" [meaning] in his full strength. This is one of three matters that Rabbi Yishmael would expound in the Torah as a kind of figure of speech. Similarly, "if the sun has risen upon him" (Exodus 22:2): does the sun rise upon him alone? Does it not rise upon the whole world? Rather, just as the sun means peace in the world, so too here: if it is known that the intruder departed from him in peace [with no intent to kill] and yet the householder killed him, he is liable. Similarly, "and they shall spread out the garment" (Deuteronomy 22:17): they clarify the matters as clear as a garment.

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