Tractate Bava Kamma in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, and Babylonian Talmud interpreted the laws of damages related to oxen in 35–36, pits in men who steal livestock in crop-destroying beasts in fires in and related torts. The Mishnah taught that Scripture deals with four principal causes of damage: (1) the ox (in ), (2) the pit (in ), (3) the crop-destroying beast (in ), and (4) the fire (in ). The Mishnah taught that although they differed in some respects, they had in common that they are in the habit of doing damage, and they have to be under their owner's control so that whenever one of them does damage, the owner is liable to indemnify with the best of the owner's estate (when money is not tendered). The Rabbis taught in a Baraita that Scripture identifies three principal categories of damage by the ox: (1) by the horn (in ), (2) by the tooth (in ), and (3) by the foot (also in ).