Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 202:7

יכול שלשתן נשרפו ת"ל והנה שורף אחד נשרף ולא שלשתן נשרפו דרש דרש שתי דרישות למה אמר להו מפני מה חטאת זו נשרפה ואלו מונחות ואיני יודע איזהו כשהוא אומר (ויקרא י, יז) ואותה נתן לכם לשאת את עון העדה הוי אומר זה שעיר של ראש חודש

'[Moses] inquired' refers to the goat of New Moon.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus this verse is made to refer to three sacrifices, not to one.');">¹⁰</span> You might think that the three of them were burnt; therefore it says, 'and, behold, it was burnt': one was burnt, but thre were not burnt - 'Diligently inquired': why these two enquiries?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The emphatic 'diligently' is expressed in Hebrew, as usual, by the repetition of the verb, and hence understood to mean two enquiries.');">¹¹</span>

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