Related%20passage for Sanhedrin 10:5

הַכֵּה תַכֶּה אֶת וְגוֹ' (דברים יג). הַחַמֶּרֶת וְהַגַּמֶּלֶת הָעוֹבֶרֶת מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מַצִּילִין אוֹתָהּ. הַחֲרֵם אֹתָהּ וְאֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר בָּהּ וְאֶת בְּהֶמְתָּהּ לְפִי חָרֶב (שם), מִכָּאן אָמְרוּ נִכְסֵי צַדִּיקִים שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ אוֹבְדִין, שֶׁבְּחוּצָה לָהּ פְּלֵטִין. וְשֶׁל רְשָׁעִים, בֵּין שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ בֵּין שֶׁבְּחוּצָה לָהּ, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ אוֹבְדִין:

(Deuteronomy 13:16): "Smite shall you smite, etc." A donkey or camel caravan passing from place to place rescues it. [(The members of) a donkey or camel caravan who remain in a city thirty days are reckoned among the inhabitants of the city. [("they rescue it":) If the majority of the city were incited to idolatry, and a minority not, and the members of the caravan who were not incited make the minority a majority, they "rescue" the city from property loss, causing them to be judged as individuals. They can, likewise, cause the city to be judged as a condemned one if they were incited along with them to form a majority, but the tanna "pursues merit." Furthermore, it is more probable that the caravan members would tend not to be so close to the people of the city as to be incited along with them.] (Ibid.): "Lay waste it, and all that is in it, etc.": From here it is derived that the property of the righteous within it is destroyed; (the property of the righteous) outside it escapes. And (the property) of the wicked, whether in it or outside it, is destroyed.

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