Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 8:58

אלמא חובות בבמה לא קרוב

And [from the Baraitha] itself we can deduce this: 'On that day [firstlings] were sacrificed', but after that, [in the wilderness], there was no sacrifice [of firstlings].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because, as Resh Lakish says, the first-born in the wilderness either of men or cattle were not sanctified and those of cattle offered on the day the Sanctuary was erected, were born in Egypt.');">³⁵</span>

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