Commentary for Zevachim 194:9

אלא דסכין ועולה גופה מנלן דכתיב (בראשית כב, י) וישלח אברהם את ידו ויקח את המאכלת והתם עולה הוא דכתיב (בראשית כב, יג) ויעלהו לעולה תחת בנו

If we say, a basin?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For receiving the blood; and this teaches that a peace-offering too needs a basin. That a burnt.offering requires a basin is inferred from Ex. XXIV, 5f, q.v.');">¹¹</span> in respect of public peace-offerings too it is written, And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 6. The blood was that of burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. Hence peace-offerings need not be inferred from burnt-offerings.');">¹²</span> Rather, it means a knife.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A burnt-offering must be killed with a knife (a utensil) and not e.g. with a sharp piece of stone (unfashioned into a utensil) , and the text intimates that the same applies to the others.');">¹³</span>

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