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Mishnah, Sotah, 9.7

נִמְצָא הַהוֹרֵג עַד שֶׁלֹּא נֶעֶרְפָה הָעֶגְלָה, תֵּצֵא וְתִרְעֶה בָעֵדֶר. מִשֶּׁנֶּעֶרְפָה הָעֶגְלָה, תִּקָּבֵר בִּמְקוֹמָהּ, שֶׁעַל סָפֵק בָּאתָה מִתְּחִלָּתָהּ, כִּפְּרָה סְפֵקָהּ וְהָלְכָה לָהּ. נֶעֶרְפָה הָעֶגְלָה וְאַחַר כָּךְ נִמְצָא הַהוֹרֵג, הֲרֵי זֶה יֵהָרֵג: If the murderer was discovered before the heifer’s neck was broken, it goes free and grazes with the herd; But if after the heifer’s neck was broken, it is buried in that place because it came there from the outset in connection with a matter of doubt, and atoned for the doubt which is now gone. If the heifer’s neck was broken and afterwards the murderer is discovered, behold he is executed.

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abraham (abram)	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
animals	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
animals food	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
blind person	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
border-areas/frontier	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
buying and/or selling	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
children	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
children of noah	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
city/town	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
corpse(-uncleanness)	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
court, the	Cohn, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (2013) 45
day of atonement narrative, and court authority	Cohn, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (2013) 45
divorce document	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
dog-(food)	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
eliezer	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
emancipation-(writs)	Porton, Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta (1988) 55
yohanan ben zakkai, rabban'	Fonrobert and Jaffee, The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature Cambridge Companions to Religion (2007) 301