Commentary for Menachot 49:11

תנו רבנן דם שנטמא וזרקו בשוגג הורצה במזיד לא הורצה במה דברים אמורים ביחיד אבל בציבור בין בשוגג בין במזיד הורצה ובעובד כוכבים בין בשוגג בין במזיד בין באונס בין ברצון

and also, For it shall not be acceptable for you.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid, 20. These verses indicate that under no circumstances are blemished animals acceptable for an offering.');">¹⁸</span> Our Rabbis taught: If the blood of an offering became unclean and yet was sprinkled inadvertently<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra as to the meaning of 'inadvertently', whether it refers to the contracting of the uncleanness or the sprinkling.');">¹⁹</span> it is acceptable, if deliberately it is not acceptable. This is the rule only with a private offering, but in the case an offering of the community it is acceptable, whether inadvertently or deliberately. In the case of an offering by a gentile<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gentiles were also allowed to offer either freewill- or votive-offerings; v. infra 73b.');">²⁰</span> [the rule is] whether inadvertently or deliberately, whether accidentally or intentionally,

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