Commentary for Sanhedrin 68:3

והאמר רב אדא בר אהבה עולת העוף פסולה איכא בינייהו מאן דמייתי לה מכבשים כבשים אין אבל עולת העוף לא ומאן דמייתי לה מעולה אפילו עולת העוף נמי

R. Akiba said: [Scripture states,] burnt offering:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] Ibid. verse 42; This shall be a continued burnt offering (R. Hananel). According to Rashi, it occurs in the same verse 38 as above. Though the word does not appear in the Masoretic text, it occurs in the Samaritan Text. On such variants, v. Heller, Samaritan Pentateuch, an adaptation of the Masoretic Text. ');">⁵</span> Just as the burnt offering is fit [for the altar], so with all things that are so. And what do both exclude? Invalid objects.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., things that were never permissible upon the altar, e.g., leaven and honey; v. Lev. II, 11. ');">⁶</span>

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