טז ואכתי
16 Surely it i derived from the text adduced by the 'Others', as it has been taught: 'Others say, I might say that a firstling after a year has passed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A firstling has to be sacrificed within its first year, v. Deut. XV, 20.');"><sup>16</sup></span> is like consecrated things that have become disqualified<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For being offered on the altar.');"><sup>17</sup></span> and so is disqualified. Therefore it says, And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XIV, 23.');"><sup>18</sup></span> Here firstling is mentioned alongside of tithe, [to indicate that] just as tithe is not disqualified by being kept from one year to another,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because it says, At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe etc., Deut. XIV, 28.');"><sup>19</sup></span> so a firstling is not disqualified by being kept from one year to another.' - It was still necessary [to learn the lesson in the other way]. For you might have imagined that this applies only to a firstling, which is not for appeasement, but consecrated<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., burnt - and sin-offerings. ubmrk');"><sup>20</sup></span> things which are for appeasement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. Lev. I, 3 et al. E.V. 'that he (it) may be accepted.'');"><sup>21</sup></span> will not appease [if kept over]. Therefore I am told that this is not so. But still [I may object that]