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וכי תימא הכא נמי בנתערב באחת; אי הכי, אמר לו רבי יהושע: הרי הוא עובר על בל תוסיף – הכא בל תוסיף מהיכא?
And if you would say that here too, the Mishnah is discussing a case where the measure of 4 placements was mixed with precisely the amount of one placement, and therefore the priest certainly placed some blood of both offerings, if so, how would one explain the clause in the Mishnah that states: R' Yehoshua said to R' Eliezer: According to your opinion, doesn’t the priest violate the prohibition of: Do not add? From where is the violation of: Do not add, here? After all, the priest places only the measure of one placement from the offering that requires one placement.
אלא אמר רבא: בבלול לא פליגי, כי פליגי – בכוסות; לרבי אליעזר אית ליה רואין, לרבנן לית להו רואין.
Rather, Rava says: R' Eliezer and the Rabbis do not disagree with regard to a case of actual blood mixed together. When they disagree it is with regard to a case of cups of blood that were intermingled, and it is unknown which blood is in which cup. The explanation according to R' Eliezer is that he is of the opinion that one views the blood that was not placed properly as though it were water, and therefore it is permitted to present the blood; whereas the explanation according to the Rabbis is that they are not of the opinion that one views the blood that was not placed properly as though it were water, and consequently all of it must be poured into the Temple courtyard drain.
ובבלול לא פליגי?! והתניא, אמר רבי יהודה: לא נחלקו רבי אליעזר וחכמים על דם חטאת שנתערב בדם עולה – שיקרב, ברובע ונרבע – שלא יקרב. על מה נחלקו? על דם תמימה שנתערב בדם בעלת מום – שרבי אליעזר אומר: יקרב, בין בבלול בין בכוסות; וחכמים אומרים: לא יקרב.
The Talmud asks: And do they not disagree with regard to blood mixed together? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda said: R' Eliezer and the Rabbis did not disagree in a case of blood of a sin offering that was mixed with blood of a burnt offering that the mixture should be sacrificed, or in a case of blood that was fit for presentation that was mixed with the blood of an animal that had sex with a person, or an animal that was the object of bestiality, that it should not be sacrificed. The baraita continues: With regard to what case did they disagree? With regard to blood of an unblemished animal that was mixed with blood of a blemished animal, as R' Eliezer says that it should be sacrificed, whether in a case of blood mixed together or in a case of cups intermingled, and the Rabbis say it should not be sacrificed.