Commentary for Temurah 10:19

[Sacrifices rendered unfit for the altar]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having become blemished. The difference between a firstling and a tithing animal and other disqualified sacrifices is that the flesh of the latter may be sold by weight and in shops like ordinary flesh, and this is not considered an unbecoming treatment of sacrifices since all profits accrued thereby go to the Sanctuary. But in regard to the flesh of a firstborn or a tithing animal, since the benefit accrues to the owners - in the case of the firstborn to the priest and in the case of a tithing animal to the Israelite owners - we do not allow them to be sold in the shop and by weight, as not in keeping with the treatment becoming to sacred things.');">¹⁴</span>

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