Commentary for Chullin 263:52

אי בכור הוא כוליה דידי הוא ואי לאו בכור הוא הב לי מתנתאי

SAID, 'EXCEPT THE DUES', HE IS EXEMPT FROM GIVING THE DUES.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The purchaser is exempt from giving the dues for they had not become his property at all.');">³²</span> IF A MAN SAID, SELL ME THE ENTRAILS OF A COW', AND AMONG THEM WERE THE PRIESTLY DUES, HE MUST GIVE THEM TO A PRIEST AND [THE SELLER] NEED NOT ALLOW ANY REDUCTION IN THE PURCHASE PRICE ON THAT ACCOUNT. BUT IF HE BOUGHT THEM FROM HIM BY WEIGHT, HE MUST GIVE THEM TO A PRIEST, AND [THE SELLER] MUST ALLOW A REDUCTION IN THE PRICE ON THAT ACCOUNT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 131a.');">³³</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Why is this so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That, in the first clause, all the animals are exempt from the dues because of the firstling that is mixed up with them.');">³⁴</span> - The priest can surely approach him with a double claim<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'from two sides'.');">³⁵</span> saying [of each animal].' If it is the firstling, it is all mine, and if it is not the firstling, then give me my dues!'

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