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This verse teaches that a blemished firstborn is given to a priest as a gift, and that he may eat its meat. This is a novel concept, as we have not found in the entire Torah another halakha similar to it, where a blemished offering is given to the priests for consumption.
The Talmud asks: And according to R' Yishmael, who interprets this verse differently, from where does he derive this halakha that a blemished firstborn is given to a priest? The Talmud answers: He derives it from the phrase: “As the breast of waving and as the right thigh, it shall be yours” (Numbe
§ The Talmud raises another question: Granted, according to the opinion of R' Yosei HaGelili, who interprets the verse as referring also to an animal tithe offering and a Paschal offering, this is as it is written in the same verse: “You shall not redeem; they are sacred” (Numbers 18:17). The word “
This is as we learned in a Mishnah (Temura 21a): With regard to the substitute of a firstborn and of an animal tithe offering, both they, the substitutes themselves, and their offspring, and the offspring of their offspring, forever, i.e., for all future generations, are as the firstborn and the a
And likewise with regard to the substitute of a Paschal offering, we learned in a Mishnah (Pesaḥim 96b) that R' Yehoshua says: I have heard two rulings from my teachers: One ruling was that the substitute of a Paschal offering is sacrificed as a peace offering after Passover, and another ruling was