Commentary for Zevachim 169:16

אנן הכי קאמרינן מדיחן למה לי דאי מיתרמי כהן אחרינא ולא ידע נסקינהו

- What then should we do? Offer [i.e.burn] them with their dung? 'Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mal. I, 8. This is a protest against offering anything unseemly, and it is most unseemly to offer the inwards uncleaned.');">¹⁷</span> This is our difficulty: why must he wash them?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since they must be taken down, after which they cannot go up again, let them be left as they are.');">¹⁸</span> - So that if another priest chances upon them and does not know,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That they are unfit.');">¹⁹</span> he will take them up.

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