Related%20passage for Pesachim 67:5
א"ל מידי שמיע לך בהא אמר להו הכי אמר רב ששת מאי אסורין אסורין לכהנים הואיל ואיפסילו להו בהיסח הדעת
But since they are clean in that they do not defile, why are they forbidden to be eaten? - Said they to him, Thus did Rabbah say: What is meant by 'forbidden'? They are forbidden to lay Israelites. Now what does he inform us? That that which grows of terumah is [itself] terumah! [But] we have [already] learned it [elsewhere]: That which grows of terumah is terumah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even in the case of a species whose original seed rots away in the earth.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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