Commentary for Bekhorot 37:17
(שמות יג, יב) פטר רחם
why does not the Talmud bring the text 'The firstling'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the law of the firstling only applied to an animal which is a firstling in every particular, why does not the Talmud, instead of saying 'I might infer that even if a female came before' etc., simply refer to the word 'firstling, in the text as excluding this assumption, since a genuine firstling must be such in all respects? Hence we may deduce that the scriptural firstling can be an animal which is so only in one respect.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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