Commentary for Menachot 164:12

עולה מה עולה טעונה כלי אף כל טעון כלי מאי היא אילימא מזרק גבי זבחי שלמי ציבור נמי כתיב (שמות כד, ו) וישם באגנות

For it required the sprinkling of blood and offering of the sacrificial portions upon the altar - for an altar had already been set up - nevertheless it was brought only from what was unconsecrated since as yet the law of Second Tithe had not come into force. Why did he find it necessary to adduce this verse 'And thou shalt keep'? Even against the inference drawn from the verse 'And thou shalt keep' R. Akiba can put forward the objection that it is not right to infer the possible from the impossible.

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