Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 31:16

אין מוציאין כו': מנהני מילי אמר ר' אבהו דאמר קרא (במדבר כז, כא) ולפני אלעזר הכהן יעמוד

why the need of both verses? — The one states the law itself; the other, its practice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XVIII, 22, states the law; ibid. 26 merely relates that this was carried out, but gives no new law. ');">²⁹</span> But the other [<i>Tanna</i>]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., why interpret both verses (v. n. 11) as stating laws, when the second is obviously mere narrative? ');">³⁰</span>

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