Commentary for Bekhorot 108:17
אי כתיב כל מעשר בהמה הוי אמינא אפילו חיה תחת תחת מקדשים גמר
To this R'Huna B. Nathan demurred: Why not say [that the text] 'Of the herd and of the flock' intimates that you may tithe large cattle for flock?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to mix herd with flock'. How does Raba know that the reason why Scripture writes 'Of the herd etc.' is so that one must not tithe one for the other? Perhaps Scripture specified the animals in details in order to deduce that you may tithe one for the other. For had Scripture only said: 'And concerning the tithe of the animal', I should have inferred a minori from 'new and old', as explained above, that you must not tithe one for the other. R. Huna in asking this question was under the impression that since Raba does not hold with Abaye's interpretation of the text 'The first fruits of them', he also does not accept the interpretation derived from the text 'the tenth' (Rashi) !');"><sup>13</sup></span>
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