Midrash for Menachot 155:2
למדנו עשרה לחמץ עשרה למצה מנין תלמוד לאמר (ויקרא ז, יג) על חלות לחם חמץ כנגד חמץ הבא מצה
We have now learnt that ten [tenths] are required for the leavened [cakes], but whence do we know that ten [tenths] are required for the unleavened [cakes]? The text therefore stated, With cakes of leavened bread; thus one must bring unleavened [cakes] in the same measure as the leavened [cakes]'. But may that which has itself been inferred by a hekkesh<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The rule that the ten leavened cakes of the thank-offering shall consist of ten tenths, a tenth for every cake, was established by a comparison aehv');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Sifrei Bamidbar
(Bamidbar 6:150 "And a basket of unleavened bread": general (any kind); "fine flour, cake mixed with oil": particular. general-particular (The rule is:) There obtains in the general only what is in the particular. For it would follow (otherwise), viz.: Since a thanksgiving offering requires bread and the Nazirite ram requires bread, then if I have learned that one thanksgiving offering requires four kinds, then the Nazirite ram should also require four kinds; it is, therefore, written "and a basket of unleavened bread": general; "fine flour, cakes mixed with oil": particular. general-particular (The rule is:) There obtains in the general only what is in the particular. "and their meal-offering and their peace-offerings": for the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings." — But perhaps also for the sin-offering and for the guilt-offering (of the Nazirite who has become tamei). And this would follow a fortiori, viz.: Since a leper shaves and brings an offering and a Nazirite shaves and brings an offering, then just as the sin-offering and guilt-offering of a leper require libations, so should those of a Nazirite require libations; it is, therefore, written (Ibid. 17) "And the ram shall he offer as a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the L-rd for the basket of unleavened bread, and the Cohein shall offer its (the ram's) meal-offering and its drink-offering." The ram was included in the general rule ("and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings,") and it departed from the general rule (for special mention) to teach something about the rule itself, viz.: Just as the ram, which is distinct in being offered for vow and gift requires drink-offerings, so, all offerings for vow and gift require drink-offerings — to exclude the sin-offering and the guilt-offering, which, not being offered for vow and gift, do not require drink-offerings. Variantly: Since it (the ram) was included in the general rule, and it departed (from that rule) to teach about the bread, Scripture returned it to its rule.
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