Commentary for Menachot 164:14

מנחה מה מנחה אינה נאכלת אלא לזכרי כהונה אף כל אין נאכלין אלא לזכרי כהונה מאי אי חטאת ואשם

The Tanna of our Mishnah derives the law that the thank-offering must be brought only from what is unconsecrated by hekkesh from Passover-offerings in general, which include also the Passover-offering in Egypt. Zeb. 97b. Lev. VII, 37. For receiving the blood therein. This is expressly stated in connection with the burnt-offering, as it is written (Ex. XXIV, 5,6) : And he sent the young men of the children of Israel who offered burnt-offerings . . And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins. Ibid. 6. And in verse 5 it is written, And sacrificed peace-offerings. I.e., the instrument used for the slaughtering shall be something detached from the ground and not a flint or a reed that is attached to the ground (Rashi Zeb. 98a) . Aliter: one must use a knife for the slaughtering and not kill the beast by tearing its organs with the hands as is the case with a bird-offering whose head is nipped by the priest with his finger. Gen. XXII, 10. The expression 'and took' implies something movable and not fixed. Ibid. 13.

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