Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 122:10

כי אתא רבין אמר ר"ש בן פזי משום בר קפרא שיתין הוסיפו מעיקרא סבור מזבח אדמה שהוא אטום באדמה

Said Abaye to him: If it was sufficient for the first Temple, when it is written, Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea [shore] in multitude;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings IV, 20. The bracketed word 'shore', not in the M.T., is found in some old Hebrew MSS.');">²⁰</span> would it be insufficient for the second Temple. whereof it is written, The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand [etc.]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezra II, 64.');">²¹</span>

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