Zevachim

MISHNAH. WHATEVER IS MORE CONSTANT THAN ANOTHER TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE OTHER. THE DAILY OFFERINGS1 PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS;2 THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF THE SABBATH PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW MOON;3 THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW MOON PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW YEAR; FOR IT IS SAID, [YE SHALL OFFER THESE] BESIDE THE BURNT-OFFERING OF THE MORNING, WHICH IS FOR A CONTINUAL BURNT-OFFERING.4 GEMARA. Whence do we know it? [You ask] Whence do we know it: surely he [the Tanna] states the reason, viz., ‘BESIDE THE BURNT-OFFERING OF THE MORNING’? — Perhaps only the daily-offerings precede the additional offerings, because they are constant; how do we know that additional-offerings [precede] [less frequent] additional-offerings?5 — Said R. Elai, Because Scripture states, Like these ye shall offer daily, for seven days:6 [instead of] ‘these’, ‘like these’ [is written].7 But this is required for its own purpose?8 — If so,9 let [Scripture] write, ‘These ye shall offer daily’.10 If it wrote, ‘These ye shall offer daily for seven days’, I would think [that] these [are offered] in the seven days?11 — ‘Daily’ is written.12 Yet I might still interpret. These [ye shall offer] for the day,13 but on the remaining days I could not know how many?14 — Scripture says, Ye shall offer, [which implies] that all your offerings must be alike.15 Abaye said: [We learn it] from that very text.16 For if so,17 let Scripture say ‘beside the burnt-offering of the morning’, and then be silent; why state, which is for a continual burnt-offering? To teach that that which is more constant takes precedence.18 MISHNAH. WHATEVER IS MORE SACRED THAN ANOTHER PRECEDES THAT OTHER. THE BLOOD OF A SIN-OFFERING PRECEDES THE BLOOD OF A BURNT-OFFERING,19 BECAUSE IT PROPITIATES.20 THE LIMBS OF A BURNT-OFFERING PRECEDE THE EMURIM OF A SIN-OFFERING,21 BECAUSE IT [THE FORMER] IS ENTIRELY FOR [ALTAR] FIRES. A SIN-OFFERING PRECEDES A GUILT-OFFERING, BECAUSE ITS BLOOD IS SPRINKLED ON THE FOUR HORNS AND ON THE BASE.22 A GUILT-OFFERING PRECEDES A THANKSOFFERING AND A NAZIRITE'S RAM, BECAUSE IT IS A SACRIFICE OF HIGHER SANCTITY. A THANKSOFFERING AND A NAZIRITE'S RAM PRECEDE A PEACE-OFFERING, BECAUSE THEY ARE EATEN ONE DAY [ONLY] AND REQUIRE [THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF] LOAVES. A PEACE-OFFERING PRECEDES A FIRSTLING, BECAUSE IT REQUIRES FOUR [BLOOD] APPLICATIONS, LAYING [OF HANDS]. DRINK-OFFERINGS, AND THE WAVING OF THE BREAST AND THE THIGH. A FIRSTLING PRECEDES TITHE, BECAUSE ITS SANCTITY IS FROM THE WOMB,23 AND IT IS EATEN BY PRIESTS. TITHE PRECEDES BIRD[-OFFERINGS]. BECAUSE IT IS A SLAUGHTERED SACRIFICE,24 AND PART OF IT IS MOST SACRED, [VIZ.,] ITS BLOOD AND EMURIM.25 BIRDS PRECEDE MEAL-OFFERINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOOD SACRIFICES. A SINNER'S MEAL-OFFERING PRECEDES A VOTIVE MEAL-OFFERING, BECAUSE IT COMES ON ACCOUNT OF SIN. A SIN-OFFERING OF A BIRD PRECEDES A BURNT-OFFERING OF A BIRD; AND IT IS LIKEWISE WHEN HE DEDICATES THEM.26 implies that that had already been offered, having preceded the additional offerings. frequency. so in these (the festival additional-offerings) the more frequent take precedence. so intimates precedence. the base (Rashi). In the case of a bird only the blood possesses that sanctity, but there are no emurim. burnt-offering.