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מתני׳ כיצד מערימין על הבכור? מבכרת שהיתה מעוברת, אומר: ״מה שבמעיה של זו אם זכר — עולה״, ילדה זכר — יקרב עולה, ״ואם נקבה — זבחי שלמים״, ילדה נקבה — תקרב שלמים.
Mishnah: How may one employ artifice to circumvent the obligation to give the firstborn to the priest and utilize the animal for a different offering that he is obligated to bring? The owner approaches an animal that is going to give birth to its firstborn while that animal was still pregnant, and says: That which is in the womb of this animal, if it is male, is designated as a burnt offering. In that case, if the animal gave birth to a male, it will be sacrificed as a burnt offering. And in a case where he says: If it is female, it is designated as a peace offering, if the animal gave birth to a female, it will be sacrificed as a peace offering.
״אם זכר — עולה, ואם נקבה — זבחי שלמים״, ילדה זכר ונקבה — הזכר יקרב עולה, והנקבה תקרב שלמים. ילדה שני זכרים — אחד מהם יקרב עולה, והשני ימכר לחייבי עולה, ודמיו חולין.
In a case where the owner says: If it is male it is designated as a burnt offering, and if it is female it is designated as a peace offering, and the animal gave birth to a male and a female, the male will be sacrificed as a burnt offering and the female will be sacrificed as a peace offering. If the animal gave birth to two males, one of them will be sacrificed as a burnt offering and the second will be sold to those obligated to bring a burnt offering, who will sacrifice it as a burnt offering; and the money received from its sale is non-sacred.
ילדה שתי נקבות — אחת מהם תקרב שלמים, והשניה תימכר לחייבי שלמים, ודמיה חולין. ילדה טומטום ואנדרוגינוס — רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר: אין קדושה חלה עליהן.
If the animal gave birth to two females, one of them will be sacrificed as a peace offering and the second will be sold to those obligated to bring a peace offering, who will sacrifice it as a peace offering, and the money received from its sale is non-sacred. If the animal gave birth to a tumtum, whose gender is unknown, or a hermaphrodite, which has both male and female sexual organs, both of which are unfit for sacrifice, Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: They are not imbued with sanctity.