Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 108:35

ט"ז מיל

But does not [the Mishnah] state previously that the distance for combining the animals is sixteen mils, implying but not a greater distance? - [The Mishnah mentions thirty-two mils] because it wishes to report in a later clause: IF HOWEVER THERE WAS A HERD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRTY-TWO MILS HE BRINGS THEM [INTO A SHED] AND TITHES THEM IN THE MIDDLE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But in reality if the distance between the two flocks at all exceeds sixteen mils they cannot be combined for tithing.');">²⁷</span>

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