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LEVITICUS — 19:3 keep

LEV303 The Rabbis taught: Whence is it derived that if one's father told him: Become unclean [in the event of his becoming a priest] or: Do not return a lost object -- Whence is it derived that the son is not to heed the father? From: "A man, his mother and his father, you shall fear, and My Sabbaths you shall keep" -- you are all obligated to honor Me (Bava Metzia 32a)

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LEVITICUS — 19:11 steal

LEV340 Rava said: Why does Scripture states: "Do not steal"? [Derived it (the prohibition against taking another's property) from the interdiction of usury and of cheating.] [We are being taught] "Do not steal" [even if only] to taunt [i.e., with the intention of returning the stolen object]; "Do not steal" [even if] to increase the liability of kefel [paying double in order to benefit the other!] (Bava Metzia 61b)

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