Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 167:15

ומה ראית לרבות את אלו ולהוציא את אלו אחר שריבה

<big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>It was taught, R'Judah said: [This is the law of the burnt-offering:] it is that which goeth up [on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the morning]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 2.');"><sup>17</sup></span> here you have three limitations. It excludes [an animal] slaughtered at night; [an animal] whose blood was spilt; and [an animal] whose blood passed out beyond the hangings: if any one of these ascended [the altar], it must descend. R'Simeon said: 'Burnt-offering': I only know this of a fit burnt-offering; whence do I know to include one which was slaughtered at night, or whose blood was spilt, or whose blood passed without the hangings, or [the flesh of] which spent the night [away from the altar], or went out, or the unclean, or which was slaughtered [with the intention of burning its flesh] after time or without bounds; or whose blood was received and sprinkled by unfit [persons]; or whose blood was applied below [the scarlet line] when it should be applied above, or above when it should be applied below; or without when it should be applied within, or within when it should be applied without; or a Passover-offering or a sin-offering which one slaughtered for a different purpose: whence do we know [to include all these]? From the phrase, 'the law of the burnt-offering', which intimates one law for all burnt-offerings [viz. ,] that if they ascended, they do not descend. You might think that I also include a roba' and a nirba', one set aside [for an idolatrous sacrifice], or worshipped; a [harlot' hire or the price [of a dog], or a hybrid, or a terefah or an animal calved through the caesarean section. Scripture, however, states: 'it is that.' And why do you include the former and exclude the latter? Since Scripture includes

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