th, when the lamb is too much for the eaters, and there is legal
uncleanness, they should not bring with it a feast-offering."

4. The feast-offering(163) came from flocks, from herds, from sheep and
goats, from rams and ewes, and it may be eaten during a period of two days
and one night.

5. "The passover which was slaughtered without the proper intention on a
Sabbath?" "The offerer of it is indebted for a sin-offering." "And all the
other sacrifices which he slaughtered for the passover?" "If they be not
suitable for it he is guilty." "And if they be suitable?" Rabbi Eleazar
declares him "indebted for a sin-offering." But R. Joshua "frees him."
Said Rabbi Eleazar, "what! if the passover which was allowed for proper
intention when the offerer changed its intention, makes him guilty; is it
not the teaching that sacrifices, which are disallowed for want of proper
intention when the offerer changed their intention, make him also guilty?"
Rabbi Joshua said to him, "no; if thou saidst in the passover when he
changed its intention it is changed to a thing disallowed, thou wilt say
in the other sacrifices when he changed their intention they are changed
to a thing allowed." Rabbi Eleazar said to him, "the congregational
offerings will give the proof, because they are rendered lawful on the
Sabbath by intention, but whoever slaughtered (another) sacrifice with
their intention is guilty." Rabbi Joshua said to him, "no; if thou sayest
so in the congregational offerings, which are a determined number, thou
wilt also say so in the passover sacrifice which has no determined
number." Rabbi Meier said, "even he who slaughtered other offerings on the
Sabbath, with the intention of the congregational offerings, is free."

6. "When one slaughtered the passover, but not for its eaters, or not for
those numbered to eat it, for uncircumcised and for unclean persons?" "He
is guilty." "For its eaters and not for its eaters? For its reckoning and
not for its reckoning? For circumcised and uncircumcised? For clean and
unclean?" "He is free." "He slaughtered it, and it was found blemished?"
"He is guilty." "He slaughtered it and it was found torn in secret?" "He
is free." "He slaughtered it, and it became known that its owners retired
from it, or died, or became legally unclean?" "He is free, because he
slaughtered it with lawful permission."

Chapter VII

1. "How do men roast the passover?" "They bring a stick of pomegranate and
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