Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 121:11
אשכחן שלא למנויו שלא לאוכליו מנא לן אמר קרא (שמות יב, ד) איש לפי אכלו תכוסו איתקש אוכלין למנויין
Rabbi said, This is a Syriac expression, as a man who says to his neighbour, 'Kill [kos] me this lamb.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus Rabbi connects the word with slaughter. But he also admits its Hebrew connotation of counting, and he thus points out that an intention for those who cannot eat it or who are not registered for it disqualifies the sacrifice only when it is expressed at the killing, but not when it is expressed at one of the other services (Tosaf.) .');"><sup>11</sup></span> We have thus found [it disqualified if killed] for those who are not registered for it; how do we know [the same of] those who cannot eat it? Scripture saith, according to every man's eating ye shall make your count,' [thus] eaters are assimilated to registered [persons].
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