Commentary for Temurah 10:6

and may neither be sold alive nor dead, neither unblemished nor blemished.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because we draw an analogy between ma'aser and dedications, just as in the latter both redemption and selling are forbidden, similarly in the former, i.e., a tithing animal, selling is also forbidden. Now I might have supposed that the law of the firstling animal would be the same as that of tuv an animal tithed as regards its selling. Therefore the word (it is) used in connection with dedications comes to exclude a firstling animal from the restriction of selling.');">⁵</span>

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