Comparing the Slaughter and Sale of the Stolen Animal

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 342:2

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Another interpretation: Scripture compared the one who slaughters to the one who sells, and the one who sells to the one who slaughters. Just as a sale is outside his domain, so too the slaughter must be outside his domain. Just as a sale leaves the animal permitted to be eaten, so too the slaughter must leave it permitted to be eaten. Just as a sale leaves it permitted in benefit, so too the slaughter must leave it permitted in benefit. Just as a slaughter cannot be reversed, so too a sale must be one that cannot be reversed. Just as a slaughter is of the whole animal, so too a sale must be of the whole animal.

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