Halakhah for Yevamot 10:8

מפסח מה לפסח שכן כרת

might be deduced from circumcision,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which must be performed on the eighth day of the child's birth even though that day happens to be a Sabbath when manual work is forbidden under the penalty of kareth. ');">²⁷</span> [it may be retorted]: Circumcision stands in a different category,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what in respect of circumcision'. ');">²⁸</span> for concerning it thirteen covenants<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'covenant' (in various grammatical forms) occurs thirteen times in Gen. XVII, the section dealing with the precept of circumcision, v. Ned. 31b. ');">²⁹</span> were made!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it may also supersede the Sabbath. It supplies, however, no proof that a positive precept which is not so stringent (such as the marriage with the levir) also supersedes a prohibition involving kareth. ');">³⁰</span>

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