Commentary for Pesachim 196:6

ואם אינו ידוע איזה מהן נשחט ראשון או ששחטו שניהם כאחד הוא אוכל משלו והם אינם אוכלין עמו ושלהן יצא לבית השריפה ופטורין מלעשות פסח שני

M I S H N A H. IF A COMPANY LOST THEIR PASCHAL SACRIFICE AND INSTRUCTED ONE [OF THEIR NUMBER], 'GO AND SEEK IT, AND SLAUGHTER IT ON OUR BEHALF'; AND HE WENT, FOUND, AND SLAUGHTERED IT, WHILE THEY [Also] TOOK AN ANIMAL AND SLAUGHTERED [IT]: IF HIS WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, HE EATS OF HIS AND THEY EAT WITH HIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By instructing him to slaughter it on their behalf they become registered for his and cannot register for another after the first was slaughtered. Hence their own is unfit and must be burnt.');">¹⁰</span>

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