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לימד על חגיגת ארבעה עשר שנאכלת לשני ימים ולילה אחד. או אינו אלא ליום ולילה? כשהוא אומר: ״ביום הראשון לבקר״ — הרי בקר שני אמור.
this verse teaches that the Festival peace-offering of the 14th is eaten for two days and one night; that is, it may not remain overnight until the morning of the 16th. Or perhaps it is eaten for only a day and a night; that is, it may not remain overnight until the morning of the 15th. Since for that it would have sufficed to say that an offering sacrificed “on the 1st day should not remain overnight,” when it says that an offering sacrificed “on the 1st day should not remain overnight until the morning” (Deuteronomy 16:4), the extra phrase “until the morning” indicates that the verse speaks of the second morning.
או אינו אלא בקר ראשון, ומה אני מקיים חגיגה הנאכלת לשני ימים ולילה אחד — חוץ מזו, כשהוא אומר בו: ״אם נדר או נדבה״ — לימד על חגיגת ארבעה עשר שנאכלת לשני ימים ולילה אחד.
There is still room to say: Or perhaps it is eaten only until the first morning, and how do I establish what the Torah says, that a Festival peace-offering may be eaten for two days and one night? This applies to Festival peace-offerings other than this one. The baraita explains: When it says with regard to a peace-offering: “But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a free-will offering, it should be eaten on the same day that he sacrifices his offering; and on the morrow also, the remainder of it should be eaten” (Leviticus 7:16), it teaches that any peace-offering, whether a vow or a free-will offering, or an obligation, including the Festival peace-offering of the 14th, is eaten for two days and one night.
אמר מר: או אינו אלא בקר ראשון. הא אמרת: כשהוא אומר ״ביום הראשון (לבקר)״ — הרי בקר שני אמור? הכי קאמר: או אינו אלא בשתי חגיגות הכתוב מדבר, אחת חגיגת ארבעה עשר ואחת חגיגת חמשה עשר, וזו לבוקרה וזו לבוקרה.
The Master said above in the baraita: Or perhaps it is only the first morning. The Talmud asks: But you already said that when it says that any offering sacrificed “on the 1st day should not remain overnight until the morning,” the extra phrase “until the morning” indicates that the verse speaks of the second morning. What need is there then to prove this a second time? The Talmud explains that this is what the baraita is saying: Or perhaps it is only that the verse is speaking about two different Festival peace-offerings, one being the Festival peace-offering of the 14th and one the Festival peace-offering of the 15th, and the halakha is that this, the Festival peace-offering of the 14th, may be eaten for only a day and a night until its morning, the morning of the 15th, and this, the Festival peace-offering of the 15th, may be eaten for only a day and a night until its morning, the 16th of Nisan.