Commentary for Yevamot 144:4

כי הא דיתיב רבי יוחנן וקדריש נותר בזמנו אינו נשרף אלא ביום שלא בזמנו נשרף בין ביום בין בלילה

is to be expounded;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the statement, In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised (ibid.) would have sufficiently indicated that circumcision must be performed in the daytime, the addition of the conjunction Waw is regarded as an indication that even a circumcision that takes place after its proper time must be performed in the daytime only. And the case of the mashuk was, by Rabbinical ordinance. given the same force as that of the child. ');">¹³</span> and the other Master<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Eleazar b. Simeon. ');">³</span> is of the opinion that [the conjunctive in] And in the day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Waw (and) in [H], Lev. XII, 3. ');">¹²</span> is not to be expounded.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nothing may be inferred from the use of the conjunctive Waw, not even the case of the child whose proper time of circumcision had passed, much less that of the circumcision of the mashuk, which is altogether a Rabbinical enactment. The circumcision of either may consequently be performed in the night also. ');">¹⁴</span>

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