תלמוד על עבודה זרה 1:6

HALAKHAH: Is it permitted to raise them⁷⁴Since it is forbidden to raise sheep and goats in the Land of Israel (Mishnah Bava qamma 7:10, Note 97), from where does one get them to sell them to a Gentile?? Rebbi Abba said, for example Mahir which is sixteen by sixteen mil⁷⁵The Mishnah permits to raise goats and sheep in places unfit for agriculture. Mahir is described in Eccl. rabba 1(34) as situated in the domain of the tribe of Reuben in Trans jordan, a country of sheep and goats (Num. 32:4 ). B. Z. Lurie (Sinai 83, 1978, pp. 24-29 finds Mahir in the Syrian village of Mahin, on the via Diocletiana from Syria to Iraq, on the border of the desert.. They wanted to say, he who said it is permitted to sell [says] it is permitted to leave it alone. But he who says, it is forbidden to sell [says] it is forbidden to leave it alone⁷⁶Gentiles are suspected of bestiality (Mishnah Avodah zarah 2:1).. Rebbi Jonah, Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Rav⁷⁷In the Babli, Avodah zarah 14b/15a, this is R. Eleazar’s statement opposing Rav.: Even one who says it is permitted to sell it [says] it is forbidden to leave it alone. What is the difference between selling and leaving alone? There, because he intends to sell it to him it is like the Gentile’s animal. But here it is the Jew’s animal and he is suspected about it.