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לא יאמר: אברור עשרה ואטול מהן אחד והשאר פטורים, אלא כונסן לדיר, ומוציא עשרה, ונוטל מהן אחד, והשאר מצטרפין לגורן אחר.
he may not say: I will separate 10 and bring them into the pen, and I will take one of them as animal tithe, and the rest will be exempt. Rather, he must bring them all into the pen and remove 10 of them by causing them to emerge from the opening, and take one of them, the tenth one, as animal tithe. And the remainder combine with animals born later, to be tithed in another designated time of gathering.
והתניא: תשעה עשר טלאים, לא יאמר: אברור עשרה ואטול מהן אחד, והשאר פטורין, אלא כונסן לדיר, ומוציא עשרה ונוטל מהן אחד, והשאר פטורין.
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita that if one has 19 lambs he may not say: I will separate 10 and bring them into the pen, and I will take one of them as animal tithe and the rest will be exempt; rather, he must bring them all into the pen and remove 10 of them by causing them to emerge from the opening, and take one of them, the tenth one, and the remainder are exempt? According to this baraita, the remainder are not combined with animals born later.
תרגמה רב הונא בר סחורה קמיה דרבא בריגלא: בדיר שיש לו שני פתחים עסקינן, ויצאו תשעה בפתח זה ותשעה בפתח זה, דהאיך חד חזי להכא ולהכא.
Rav Huna bar Seḥora interpreted the baraita before Rava at the time of the Festival discourse: We are dealing with a pen that has two openings. And 9 of the lambs emerged through this opening and 9 of them went out through that opening, and this last one remaining in the pen is fit to come out here or to come out there. Therefore, all the lambs emerged as part of a tally fit to reach 10.