על החוקים לפרטיהם, ספר ג כ״וOn the Special Laws, Book III 26
א׳
1[144] If a bull gores a man and kills him, it must be stoned, since it is not fit to be slaughtered as a sacrifice, and its flesh must not be eaten. Why is this? It is required by the law of holiness that the flesh of an animal that has killed a man should not be used as a foodstuff for men or to make their food more palatable.
ב׳
2[145] If the owner of the animal knowing that it is savage and wild has not tied it up nor kept it shut up under guard, or if he has had information from others that it is unmanageable, he must be held guilty as responsible for the death by allowing it to range at large. And while the aggressive animal is to be put to death at once, the owner must also forfeit his life or else redeem it by a ransom, what punishment he must suffer or what compensation he must pay being left to the decision of the court. If, however, it is a slave who is killed, he must make good his value to the owner and if it has gored not a man but one of the live-stock,
ג׳
3[146] here too the owner of the beast which has caused its death must pay like for like, taking the dead animal for his own, and be thankful that as the original cause of the wanton mischief he does not suffer a greater loss.