Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 119:10

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[the Baraitha] as dealing with a case where he counted nine and when he reached [the number] ten, he called it One, [as] from the beginning?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He did not say ten but proceeded to count, two etc. thus calling the tenth, One. Therefore the nineteenth was the tenth according to the second counting of the animals, the last ten being thus exempt through the nineteenth which is the tithe. And the first nine already counted are exempted on the grounds of a counting properly begun.');">⁷</span>

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