ח ושבע שחילקו מנלן איבעית אימא מדשבע כיבשו שבע חילקו ואיבעית אימא מדלא משכחת להו (יחזקאל מ, א) ארבע עשרה שנה אחר אשר הוכתה העיר:
8 And whence do we know that it took them seven years to distribute it? - If you like, say: Since the conquest took seven years, so did the distribution. Or, if you like, say: Because otherwise one could not account for 'In the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten'. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>THERE WERE NEVER LESS THAN SIX<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Two lambs each were required for the continual daily morning and evening sacrifice. The Gemara infers below that just as with the paschal lamb, which was ordered on the tenth of Nissan to be slaughtered on the fourteenth, the lambs for the continual daily sacrifices too had to be examined four days before the actual slaughtering for any blemish which would render them invalid. Whenever the two lambs were taken out for the daily need, at least six other examined ones had to be left at the same time, so that the lambs, newly introduced, were actually used only on the fourth day thereafter.');"><sup>9</sup></span> INSPECTED LAMBS IN THE CELL OF LAMBS,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Tam. III, 3.');"><sup>10</sup></span> SUFFICIENT FOR A SABBATH AND THE [TWO] FESTIVAL DAYS OF THE NEW YEAR,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the three fell on consecutive days, the Gemara described these words as a mnemotechnical expression. Rashi: The number of six is required for Sabbath and the two days of the New Year if they ate consecutive, each needing two. Maimonides: Six was the necessary number, because the newly introduced lambs had to be inspected for four days before they could be used, four being the number of the days which remain in a week after one has taken off the maximum of festival days that can occur in one week, i.e., the Sabbath and the two days of the New Year. Bartinoro follows Maimonides with this modification: The lambs required inspection four days, just as it would be necessary when the New Year's two days followed the Sabbath, because in that case the lambs to be used the following Tuesday would have to have been provided on the Friday before, in order that they be available early on Tuesday.');"><sup>11</sup></span>