Commentary for Bekhorot 82:23

לעולם רבנן בתראי וגבי בכור תרתי קראי כתיב

Now this is quite intelligible if you say that R'Ishmael was convinced that [a hermaphrodite] is a firstling; for that reason there was need for the scriptural text to exclude the case of a hermaphrodite.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That although it is a male, it does not receive any holiness if he consecrated it as a burnt-offering. and the animal may even be shorn and worked. And from the first text 'A male' in connection with sacrifices, one could not have derived this, for, in connection with a firstling itself, the single text 'A male' does not make the shearing and working permissible, only that its slaughtering is allowed.');">¹²</span>

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