Matthew 12:11–12: “He said to them, ’Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.’”
4Q265 f6:5–7 (from the dead sea scrolls): “Let no one raise up an animal which has fallen into the water on the Sabbath day. But if it is a man who falls into the water [on] the Sabbath [day,] one shall extend his garment to him to pull him out with it.”