their preparations, and the paschal
sacrifices must be eaten roasted on unleavened bread with bitter herbs,
and they both abrogate the Sabbath.

4. "The passover-offering which was brought during legal uncleanness?"
"The man or woman with an issue may not eat of it, nor she in separation
or in childbirth. But if they eat they are free from being cut off." Rabbi
Eleazar "frees them even in going into the sanctuary."

5. "What is the difference between the passover of Egypt and the passover
of succeeding generations?" "The passover of Egypt was taken on the tenth
day,(180) and required the sprinkling with a bunch of hyssop on the lintel
and the two side posts, and was eaten with haste in one night; but the
passover of succeeding generations exists the whole seven days."

6. Said R. Joshua, "I once heard that the substitute(181) of the
passover-offering can be sacrificed, and that the substitute of the
passover-offering cannot be sacrificed, I have no one to explain." Said R.
Akiba, "I will explain: the passover-offering, which was found (after
being lost) before the time for slaughtering its substitute, may be
pastured till it be blemished, and it can be sold, and the owner can take
for its price peace-offerings, and so also for its substitute. After the
time for slaughtering the passover-offering its substitute may be offered
for a peace-offering, and so can also its substitute."

7. "He who set apart a ewe for his passover, or a male of two years?" "He
may pasture it till it be blemished. And he can sell it, and its price may
be used for a free-will offering." "He who selected his passover, and
afterward died?" "His son must not offer it after him with the intention
of a passover, but he may offer it with the intention of a
peace-offering."

8. "The passover-offering which was mixed up with other sacrifices?" "All
must be pastured till they be blemished, and they must be sold, and the
offerer must bring the price of the best of this kind and the price of the
best of that kind, and the loss he must make up from his private means."
"The passover-offering which was mixed up with first-borns?" Rabbi Simon
said, "if there be companies of priests they may eat it."

9. "A company(182) which lost its passover-offering, and said to someone,
'go and seek it and slaughter it for us'; and he went and found it and
slaughtered it, and they meanwhile also took one and slaughtered it,--if
his be first slaughtered?" "He may eat of