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Sifrei Devarim 233/ספרי דברים רל״ג
א(דברים כב יא-יב) לֹא תִלְבַּשׁ שַׁעַטְנֵז... גְּדִלִים תַּעֲשֶׂה לָּךְ – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד. (שמות כ ח) ״זָכוֹר״ (דברים ה יב) וְ״שָׁמוֹר״ – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.
1Pisqa’ 2331521. “Do not wear garments of wool and linen fibers mingled as one . . .Tassels shall you make for yourself” (Dt. 22:11-12)—[If one may not mingle fibers how can one make tassels]?Both of these commandments were given in a single utterance.[So, too,] “Remember the Sabbath Day” (Ex. 20:8)and “Preserve the Sabbath Day” (Dt. 5:12)were both given in a single utterance.153 7.
ב(שמות לא יד) ״מְחַלְלֶיהָ מוֹת יוּמָת״, (במדבר כח ט) ״וּבְיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת שְׁנֵי כְבָשִׂים בְּנֵי שָׁנָה״ – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.
2“Who defiles it will quickly be put to death” (Ex. 31:14) and “On the Sabbath Day, two yearling lambs” (Nu. 28:9)were both given in a single utterance.
ג(ויקרא יח טז) ״עֶרְוַת אֵשֶׁת אָחִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה״ (דברים כה ה), ״יְבָמָהּ יָבֹא עָלֶיהָ״, שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.
3“Do not reveal the shame of your bother’s wife” (Lv. 18:16)And “Her brother-in-law shall consort with her” (Dt. 25:5)were both given in a single utterance.
ד(במדבר לו ח) ״וְכָל בַּת יוֹרֶשֶׁת נַחֲלָה״ (במדבר לו ט), ״וְלֹא תִסֹּב נַחֲלָה מִמַּטֶּה אֶל מַטֶּה״, שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.
4“Every daughter claiming an inheritance among the tribes of Israel shall be taken as a wifeby a man from a clan of her father’s tribe” (Nu. 36:8)and “The inheritance shall not shift from one tribe to another” (Nu. 36:9)were both given in a single utterance.154
המַה שֶּׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְבָשָׂר וָדָם לוֹמַר שְׁנֵי דְבָרִים כְּאַחַת, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים סב יב): ״אַחַת דִּבֶּר אֱלֹהִים, שְׁתַּיִם זוּ שָׁמָעְנוּ״.
5[Now this proves that the Torah is from Heaven,]for it is clearly impossible for flesh and bloodto say two things with a single utterance.As it is said:“God has spoken once, but these two things have I heard” (Ps. 62:12).155 233.1, and much of 234.1, are lacking in many mss. Finkelstein notes that the material before us here is attested as part of Sifre no earlier than the Tosafists (e.g., B. Men.41b, s.v., beit shamm’ai), who cite it with other well-attested passages of Sifre. See F:266, n. 6 and RH’s text.