Negative Commandment 113 (Digest)
Doing Work with Animal Designated for Sacrifice
"You shall not do any work with the firstborn of your ox"—Deuteronomy 15:19.
It is forbidden to do work with an animal designated for sacrifice [e.g., to use the animal to plow or to transport a load].
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> And the 113th prohibition is that we are forbidden from doing work with sanctified animals.
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement,;) "Do not work with your firstborn ox."
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> [This verse speaks only about the firstborn animals, but] we derive the prohibition from working with all sanctified animals from the law of the firstborn.
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> It has been explained in the end of tractate Makkos;) that one who works with a sanctified animal is punished by lashes.
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> Footnotes
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> Deut. 15:19.
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> 21b.