Commentary for Bekhorot 33:2

אפילו עד עשרה דורות פטורין

But according to R'Huna who said that the first Tanna does not go up to [two] generations [of offspring in exempting], what does Rabban Simeon B'Gamaliel mean by 'unto ten generations'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the first Tanna quoted in the Mishnah only exempts the offspring of the original flock, why does Rabban Simeon say, unto the tenth generation? Let him say that even the offspring of the offspring are exempt and I should have inferred that just as the offspring of the offspring are exempt, although they ware not born of the flock, the same applies to successive generations, even unto ten.');">²</span>

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