Midrash for Bekhorot 71:21
לא הפה שאסר הוא קמ"ל דאי משום הכי הוה שדי ביה מומא דניכר ואכיל ליה
- for [the priest] would not eat consecrated [unblemished] animals without the Temple walls<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the penalty for this is excision, whereas maiming a firstling is only violating a negative precept.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 15:20) "And if there be in it a blemish": This tells me only of an animal that was born unblemished and became blemished. Whence do I derive (the same for) one that was born blemished! From "every blemish."
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