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Halakhah for Menachot 112:1

אף נשחט על אותו מום רבי יהודה אומר אפילו מת אין מקיזין לו את הדם

It may even be slaughtered by reason of that blemish.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the bleeding was not intended to blemish the beast but merely to relieve it from its congestion, the blemish that results is regarded as accidental and the beast may be slaughtered on account of it; this being in accordance with R. Simeon's view that a result not intended is ignored; v. Shab. 133a.');"><sup>1</sup></span> R'Judah says, It may not be bled<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even in a place from which no physical blemish would result for it is to be feared that in his anxiety to save the beast the owner would not be careful as to the place where he bleeds it and might do so even in a place from which a blemish would certainly result.');"><sup>2</sup></span>

Sefer HaChinukh

That we not place a blemish upon consecrated animals: - That we not place a blemish upon consecrated animals; meaning to say that we not make any wound or any fracture upon a beast that is consecrated for the altar that disqualifies it as an offering - as it is stated (Leviticus 22:21), "and no blemish shall be upon it." And they, may their memory be blessed, said (Menachot 56b), "Read it as 'shall not be made in it.'" And the language of Sifra, Emor, Section 7:9 is, "'No blemish shall be upon it' - do not place a blemish upon it."
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