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ותני עלה: בחול כי האי גונא ישרף מיד. אי אמרת בשלמא בעי עקירה, האי פסח הוא, וכיון דלית ליה בעלים — הוה ליה פסולו בגופו, אמטו להכי ישרף מיד.
And it was taught in a baraita with regard to this Mishnah that on a weekday, in a case like this, where it turns out that there is no one to eat the Paschal offering, it should be burned immediately. Granted, if you say that an offering that has no owner requires uprooting from its previous status in order for its status to change and in the absence of explicit uprooting it retains its original status, here too it can be argued that this is still a Paschal offering. And since it has no owners, its disqualification is in the body of the offering itself, because it was sacrificed for no purpose, and therefore it should be burned immediately.
אלא אי אמרת לא בעי עקירה — מרישא הוה ליה שלמים, פסולו משום מאי — משום דבר אחר, דקא שחיט ליה אחר תמיד של בין הערבים. עיבור צורה בעי.
But if you say that an offering such as this does not require uprooting, but rather its original status is automatically void upon the death of its owner, and it was a peace-offering from the beginning, as a Paschal offering whose status has been revoked is considered a peace-offering, due to what then is its disqualification? Due to something else, i.e., that he slaughtered it after the daily afternoon offering, which is the proper time to slaughter the Paschal lamb. But a peace-offering that is slaughtered then is disqualified. In that case, however, it should require that it be left overnight until its form decays, thus attaining the status of leftover sacrificial meat, and only then should it be burned.
דתניא, זה הכלל: כל שפסולו בגופו — ישרף מיד. בדם ובבעלים — תעובר צורתו ויצא לבית השריפה!
As it was taught in a baraita: This is the principle: Any offering whose disqualification is in the body of the offering itself should be burned immediately and without delay. But if the disqualification is in the blood of the offering or in the owners, the meat must be kept overnight, so that its form is allowed to decay, and only then should it be taken out to the place of burning. Thus, the baraita that says that a Paschal lamb that was slaughtered on a weekday, and afterward it became known that the owners had died, should be burned immediately proves, against the opinion of Rav Huna, that an offering that has no owners still requires explicit uprooting from its previous status for its status to change.