Commentary for Zevachim 53:3

ואי שלא במקומו כמקומו דמי האי פסול פיגול הוא

Surely it is piggul!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How can you say that if he intended applying it in the wrong place on the morrow it is only invalid? On the present hypothesis it is the same as though he had intended applying it in the right place on the morrow, and that should render it piggul. For the sprinkling of the blood on the altar constitutes, as it were, the altar's consumption, and just as an intention to consume the flesh after time makes it piggul, so should a similar intention to sprinkle the blood make it piggul!');">³</span> - Said Mar Zutra: Sprinkling which permits the consumption of the flesh can render [it] piggul; sprinkling which does not permit the consumption of the flesh<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the blood is not sprinkled in its proper place.');">⁴</span>

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