Commentary for Temurah 49:17

בבהמה בבהמה עסקתי

The text therefore states: 'Howbeit', thus intimating a division.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the regular force of the word ('howbeit') . The division here indicated is between the case of a firstling and that of other dedications. Only in the case of a firstling may one make dedication prior to the animal becoming a legal firstling but not in the case of other dedications in the inside of an animal, for since the mother is holy, with every portion which forms in the womb the offspring receives the holiness of the mother.');">¹¹</span>

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