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ואי בעית אימא: אי סבירא לן הקפה ברגל — דכולי עלמא לא פליגי דילפינן פנים מחוץ. והכא בהא קא מיפלגי: מר סבר הקפה ביד, ומר סבר הקפה ברגל.
And if you wish, say instead: If we hold that the encircling is performed by foot, i.e., the priest walks around the inner altar, everyone agrees that we learn the method of sprinkling inside from the sprinkling outside. And here they disagree about this matter: One Sage, R' Akiva, holds that the priest stands in his place and sprinkles on all the corners from there, which means his encircling is performed by hand; and one Sage, R' Yosei, holds that the encircling is done by foot.
ואי בעית אימא: דכולי עלמא הקפה ביד, והכא בהא קא מיפלגי: מר סבר ילפינן יד מרגל, ומר סבר: לא ילפינן.
And if you wish, say instead: Everyone agrees that the encircling was performed by hand, and here they disagree about this matter: One Sage, R' Yosei, holds that we derive the halakhot of an encircling performed by hand from those of an encircling by foot, and therefore the ritual of the inner altar is the same as that of the outer altar. And one Sage, R' Akiva, holds that we do not derive the encircling performed by hand from the encircling done by foot.
וסבר רבי יוסי הגלילי הקפה ביד? והא מדקתני סיפא: רבי אליעזר אומר: במקומו היה עומד ומחטא, מכלל דתנא קמא לא סבירא ליה. אלא מחוורתא כדשנינן מעיקרא: מר סבר הקפה ביד, ומר סבר הקפה ברגל.
§ The Talmud asks: And does R' Yosei HaGelili hold that the encircling is performed by hand? But from the fact that it is taught in the latter clause of the Mishnah that R' Eliezer says: He stood in one place and sprinkled the blood from there, it can be learned by inference that the first tanna, whom the Talmud identified as R' Yosei HaGelili, does not maintain that the rite is performed in this manner. Rather, it is clear as we originally answered, that one Sage, R' Akiva, holds that the encircling is performed by hand; and one Sage, R' Yosei, holds that the encircling is performed by foot.