Commentary for Yevamot 144:6

ואפילו למאן דלא דריש וא'ו וא"ו וה"י דריש אישתיק

and if not at its proper time,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After the third day. V. supra n. 5. ');">¹⁹</span> it may be burned either in the day or in the night'. R. Eleazar raised an objection: I only know that a child whose circumcision takes place on the eighth day must be circumcised in the daytime only; whence, however, is it deduced that the case of a child whose circumcision takes place on the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Day of its birth. V. Shab. 137a. ');">²⁰</span> is also included? Because it was expressly stated, 'And in the day';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XII. 3. ');">²¹</span> and even he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Eleazar b. Simeon. supra. ');">²²</span>

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