Midrash for Chullin 259:12
מה לחולין שכן חייבין בבכורה
AND HE WHO SLAUGHTERED THEM<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even before they were redeemed.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 18:3) "And this shall be the judgment of the Cohanim": We are hereby taught that the priestly gifts (shoulder, cheeks, and maw) are "law" (to the end of extracting them by court order from a thief who stole them from a Cohein who had acquired them from hefker [ownerless property]).
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