Reference for Zevachim 201:18
מיד וישמע משה
I offered it. And perhaps ye were negligent through your grief, and it was defiled? Moses, he exclaimed, am I thus in your eyes, that I would despise Divine sacrifices? 'And there have befallen me such things as these', and even many more, yet would I not despise Divine sacrifices. If then, said he, 'behold, the blood of it was not brought within, and it was in the sanctuar then ye should certainly have eaten it, as I commanded', [viz.] that they should eat it in their bereavement! Perhaps you heard thus only of the night,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the sacrifice is to be eaten on the night following the day of death.');"><sup>20</sup></span> he suggested; for if [you would apply it to] the day, [you may argue] a minori from tithe, which is of lesser holiness, [that it is not so]. For if the Torah said of tithe, wh of lesser holiness, 'I have not eaten thereof in my mourning', how much the more does it apply to sacrifices, which are more holy! Forthwith, 'and when Moses heard that,