Quoting%20commentary for Bekhorot 52:17
אמר רבי אילעא קסבר ריש לקיש
BUT IF THE FIRSTLING WAS BLEMISHED AND THE PRIEST SAID TO HIM 'GIVE IT TO ME SO THAT I MAY EAT IT', THEN IT IS ALLOWED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For whereas in the previous case where the priest asks for the unblemished firstling it is forbidden because it appears as if the priest receives the animal in exchange for looking after it until it becomes blemished, in this instance as the animal can be eaten immediately and there is no necessity for the priest to detain it, it is not so.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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