Midrash for Bekhorot 105:32
הכי קאמר
it is possible to have all announcement made [by the Beth din]? - Rather said Raba: The reason is that one might be led to commit an offence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a stumbling-block'. For since we have no altar nowadays, we have to keep the animal until it becomes blemished. There is thus a possibility that an offence might be committed, that the animal might be worked and shorn or slaughtered before it is blemished.');"><sup>22</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"your tithes": R. Akiva says: Scripture speaks of two tithes, the grain tithe and the animal tithe.
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Sifrei Devarim
R. Akiva says: I might think that one brings firstlings from outside of Eretz Yisrael to the land (to be sacrificed); it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "And you shall eat before the L-rd your G-d, in the place that He shall choose to repose His name there the tithe of your corn … and the firstlings." From the place whence you bring the corn tithe (i.e., Eretz Yisrael) you bring firstlings. From outside Eretz Yisrael, whence you do not bring the corn tithe, you do not bring firstlings.
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