How [are the verses to be reconciled]? Thus if they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the nerves and bones.');"><sup>19</sup></span> are still attached [to the limb], they may be offered up; if they are severed, even if they are on the top of the altar, they must come down. And the Rabbis? - They maintain that when they are still attached [to the limb] no verse is necessary to include them, for they are on the same footing as the head of a burnt-offering;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The head of a burnt-offering had to be offered up whole upon the altar although it contains many bones; likewise every complete limb may be offered although it contains bones and nerves.');"><sup>21</sup></span> consequently the verse is only necessary to include them when severed. And Rabbi? - [He says,] as regards the permitted parts which are still attached [to the limb, I admit that]
Sifrei Devarim
From (Ibid. 9) "and the Cohein shall smoke the whole upon the altar," there is included the bones, the sinews, the horns, and the hooves. I might think, even if they became detached; it is, therefore, written "And you shall offer your burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood" (i.e., the flesh and the blood are the essential parts of the offering).
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Sifrei Devarim
"And you shall offer your burnt-offerings": I might think that he should remove the sinews and the bones, and place the flesh upon the altar; it is, therefore, written "the whole." How are the verses to be resolved? If they are attached, they are to be offered up. If they became detached, even on top of the altar, they are to be taken down.
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Sifrei Devarim
"And you shall offer your burnt-offerings": I might think that he should remove the sinews and the bones, and place the flesh upon the altar; it is, therefore, written "the whole." How are the verses to be resolved? If they are attached, they are to be offered up. If they became detached, even on top of the altar, they are to be taken down.
