Reference for Zevachim 211:17

אכתי מיבעי ליה לכדתניא עד כאן הוא מדבר בקדשים שהקדישן בשעת איסור הבמות והקריבן בשעת איסור הבמות

and in accordance with R'Abin's dictum in R'Eleazar's<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. Ilai's.');">¹⁶</span> name, vis. : Wherever 'take heed', 'lest', or 'not' is stated, it is nought but a negative command. But as for slaughtering, the penalty, it is true, is stated, for it written, [What man soever. that killeth an ox.] and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting [. shall be cut off from among his people];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVII, 3f.');">¹⁷</span> but whence [do we derive] the interdict? - Scripture saith, And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices [unto the satyrs etc].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 7.');">¹⁸</span> That is required for R'Eleazar's dictum, viz. : How do we know that if one sacrifices an animal to Merculis<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mercurius, a Roman divinity, identified with the Greek Hermes; also a statue or a way-mark dedicated to Hermes, the patron deity of the wayfarer.');">¹⁹</span> he is liable to punishment? Because it is written, 'And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the satyrs'. Since this is redundant in respect of normal worship, being derived from, How did these nations serve their gods?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 30.');">²⁰</span> apply it to abnormal worship [as being punishable]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence sacrificing to Merculis, though not its normal worship (its normal worship consisted of throwing stones at it; v. Sanh. 60b) . involves guilt. - Thus the text is required for this!');">²¹</span> - Said Rabbah: Read in this text, and they shall not sacrifice, and read in it, and they shall no more.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., this is really a double injunction, and the first, 'they shall not sacrifice', interdicts sacrificing without, this being the subject of the whol passage.');">²²</span> But it is still required for what was taught: Thus far<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The passage until this verse, and they shall no more sacrifice, i.e., Lev. XVII, 3-6.');">²³</span> it speaks of sacrifices which one consecrated when bamoth were forbidden and offered up when bamoth were forbidden,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., after the Tabernacle was erected. If, however, one consecrated an animal before the Tabernacle was erected, when bamoth were permitted, there is nothing as yet to shew that he is culpable if he slaughters it at a bamah after it is erected.');">²⁴</span>

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