Commentary for Temurah 48:27

ילדה טומטום ואנדרוגינוס כו'

of the Mishnah refers to a dedicated animal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If it was a sin-offering and it became pregnant and he wishes to use an artifice to avoid having its young condemned to death, the law being that the offspring of a sin-offering is condemned to death. He can therefore change the embryo for another dedication, since the holiness of a dedication only comes at birth but not previously.');">¹⁹</span> IF IT GAVE BIRTH TO TWO MALES etc. It was asked, If the reference is to a dedicated animal, then let the young which was dedicated as a burnt-offering be a burnt-offering and the other [young when born] retain the holiness of its mother?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why then is the second male animal sold for the purpose of a burnt-offering?');">²⁰</span> - This latter clause<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Referring to the birth of two males.');">²¹</span> refers to an animal of hullin. IF IT GAVE BIRTH TO A TUMTUM OR A HERMAPHRODITE etc.

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