Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 141:19

אמר רבא ותסברא (שמות יב, מח) המול לו כל זכר אמר רחמנא ואז יקרב לעשותו והאי לאו בר מהילא הוא אלא הכא במאי עסקינן כגון שחלצתו חמה

Do you understand this? The All Merciful said, Let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex XII, 48, i.e., in order that a man shall be enabled to observe the commandment of the Paschal lamb he is advised, or instructed, to circumcise all his males. ');">⁶⁵</span> it; but such a child is not fit to be circumcised!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, then, could the text possibly have referred to his case! ');">⁶⁶</span> But what are we dealing with here? With a child<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Over the age of eight days (cf. supra p. 480, n. 15). ');">⁶⁷</span> who recovered from a fever.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'fever released him'. The fever from which he suffered during the time of the preparation of the Paschal lamb. While in his fever he was physically unfit for, and hence exempt from circumcision. Now that he has recovered he is, at the time of consumption of the Paschal lamb, physically fit, and consequently subject to circumcision. ');">⁶⁸</span>

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