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בזמן שהן סתומין ולא בזמן שהן מפורשין — תלמוד לומר: ״קרבנו״. בקרבנו הוא יוצא, ואינו יוצא בקרבן אביו.
when they are unallocated and not when they are allocated. Consequently, the same should apply to one whose father separated money for a regular sin-offering, i.e., he should be able to use them for his own sin-offering. Therefore, the verse states: “His offering” (Leviticus 4:32), which serves to emphasize: He fulfills his obligation with his own offering, but he does not fulfill his obligation with the money separated for his father’s offering.
יכול לא יצא במעות שהפריש אפילו מן הקלה על הקלה, מן החמורה על החמורה, אבל יוצא בקרבן שהפריש לעצמו מן הקלה על החמורה, מן החמורה על הקלה — תלמוד לומר: ״קרבנו ... על חטאתו״, עד שיהא קרבנו לשום חטאו.
The baraita continues this line of argument: One might have thought that he does not fulfill his obligation with the money that his father separated if it is from money the father set aside to atone for a minor transgression and the son atones for a minor one, or from money the father set aside to atone for a major transgression and the son atones for a major one. However, the son may fulfill his obligation with the offering he separated for himself. From animals he set aside to atone for a minor transgression, he may atone for a major one, or from animals he set aside to atone for a major transgression he may atone for a minor one. Therefore, the verse states: “Then he should bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin” (Leviticus 4:28), which indicates that he does not fulfill his obligation unless his offering is for the sake of his particular sin, not for some other transgression.
יכול לא יצא בבהמה שהפריש לעצמו מן הקלה על הקלה או מן החמורה על החמורה, אפילו מן הקלה על החמורה או מן החמורה על הקלה,
One might have thought that he does not fulfill his obligation with the animal he separated for himself, from animals he set aside to atone for a minor transgression to atone for a minor one; or from animals he set aside to atone for a major transgression, to atone for a major one; or even when from animals he set aside to atone for a minor transgression to atone for a major one; or from animals he set aside to atone for a major transgression to atone for a minor one.