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Midrash for Leviticus 25:7

וְלִ֨בְהֶמְתְּךָ֔ וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ תִּהְיֶ֥ה כָל־תְּבוּאָתָ֖הּ לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ (ס)

and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

Ein Yaakov (Glick Edition)

(Fol. 62) We are taught in a Baraitha: If two were on the road [in the desert], and one of them has a pitcher of water which is sufficient for one only until he may reach an inhabited place, but if both would use it both would die before reaching a village; Ben Pattira lectured that in such a case it is better that both should drink and die than one should witness the death of his comrade, until R. Akiba came and taught: (Lev. 25, 7) That thy brother may live with thee; (i.e., thy own life is preferred to the life of thy brother).
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