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מתני׳ כל האסורין לגבי מזבח אוסרין בכל שהן — הרובע והנרבע, והמוקצה והנעבד, והאתנן והמחיר, והכלאים והטרפה, ויוצא דופן.
Mishnah: With regard to all animals whose sacrifice on the altar is prohibited, if they are intermingled with animals whose sacrifice is permitted, they prohibit the entire mixture of animals in any amount, regardless of the ratio of permitted to prohibited animals. These are the animals whose sacrifice is prohibited: An animal that had sex with a person, and an animal that was the object of bestiality, and the set-aside, and one that was worshipped, and an animal that was given as payment to a prostitute or as the price of a dog, or an animal crossbred from a mixture of diverse kinds, or an animal with a wound that will cause it to die within 12 months [tereifa], or an animal born by caesarean section.
איזהו מוקצה? המוקצה לעבודה זרה, הוא אסור ומה שעליו מותר. ואיזהו הנעבד? כל שעובדין אותו, הוא ומה שעליו אסור. וזה וזה מותר באכילה.
Which is the animal that is set-aside? It is an animal that is set aside for idol worship. The animal itself is prohibited, but that which is upon it, e.g., its jewelry and garments, is permitted to be sold in order to purchase an animal to be sacrificed. And which is the animal that was worshipped? It is any animal that a person worships as an object of idol worship. In this case, the sacrifice of both the animal itself and an animal purchased using the money from the sale of that which is upon it is prohibited. And the consumption of both this, the animal designated for idol worship, and that, the animal worshipped, is permitted.
גמ׳ אמר מר: אוסרין בכל שהן, דלא בטלי ברובא. תנינא: כל הקדשים שנתערבו בחטאות מתות או בשור הנסקל, אפילו אחד ברבוא — ימותו.
Talmud: The Master said in the Mishnah, with regard to all animals whose sacrifice on the altar is prohibited, that if they are intermingled with animals whose sacrifice is permitted, they prohibit the entire mixture in any amount. This teaches that they are not nullified by a majority. This is difficult, as we already learn this in a Mishnah (Zevaḥim 70b): All the sacrificial animals that were intermingled with an animal from which deriving benefit is prohibited, e.g., sin offerings that were disqualified and left to die, or if they were intermingled with an ox that is sentenced to be stoned, even if the ratio is one in 10,000, deriving benefit from them all is prohibited and they must all die.