Commentary for Zevachim 179:15

הלכך חטאת העוף לעולת העוף מואת השני חטאת בהמה לעולת בהמה מדרבי רחמנא חטאת העוף לעולת בהמה מזה בנה אב

This, however, furnishes a general rule for all sin-offerings, that they take precedence over all burnt-offerings which accompany them, [sc. ] the bird sin-offering [precedes] the bird burnt-offering, the animal sin-offering [precedes] the animal burnt-offering, and even a bird sin-offering [precedes] an animal burnt-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g. a woman after childbirth, who brings a year-old lamb for a burnt-offering, and a pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering.');">¹⁸</span> Therefore, [that] a bird sin-offering [precedes] a bird burnt-offering [is inferred from], And he shall prepare the second for a burnt-offering.

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