Commentary for Zevachim 235:9

מיבעי ליה לכדרבי יוחנן דא"ר יוחנן משום רבי בנאה ערל מקבל הזאה

- It is required for R'Johanan's dictum. For R'Johanan said on R'Bana'ah's authority: An uncircumcised person received sprinkling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If an uncircumcised person becomes unclean through the dead, he is besprinkled and becomes clean (v. Num. XIX, 17 seq.) , and may then handle sacrifices. He learns this from the present text, 'and they offered the Passover-offering'. Now, the majority of them had been uncircumcised in the wilderness (Josh. V, 5) : according to the Talmud (Yeb, 71b) they were circumcised on the eleventh of Nisan (the first month) ; many of them were unclean through the dead, their parents having died in the wilderness right up to the time of their crossing the Jordan into Eretz Israel. If they had not been besprinkled whilst yet uncircumcised, they would not be clean, for two sprinklings were necessary, and if the first were on the eleventh, the second would be on the fifteenth (v. Num. a.l.) , whereas they had to sacrifice on the fourteenth.');">¹⁴</span>

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