Musar for Makkot 33:12
אמר רבי שמעון מה בא זה ללמדנו אם לאוכלן חוץ לחומה קל וחומר ממעשר הקל ומה מעשר הקל אוכלן חוץ לחומה לוקה בכורים לא כל שכן הא לא בא הכתוב אלא לאוכל מבכורים עד שלא קרא עליהן שהוא לוקה
Rebbi Shimon said, What is this verse coming to teach us? If to [make one liable for eating bikorim] outside the wall [of Jerusalem, then we could have just learned it out from] a kal v'chomer from maiser, which is more lenient, that if one incurs malkus by eating the more lenient example of maiser outside of the wall, then wouldn't one certainly incur malkus for eating bikorim outside of the wall? Rather the Torah only comes to teach us that one who eats bikorim before the verses are recited incurs malkus.
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Commandment 448 prohibits the eating of קדשים קלים, i.e. offerings some parts of which may be consumed by the owner, before completion of the sprinkling of the blood on the altar. This is also derived from 12,17. The word ונדבותיך is understood as basically superfluous and therefore used to refer to premature consumption of freewill offerings such as תודה and שלמים.
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