Niddah 40b — the Talmud in English

A.

Except for

an animal that

was slaughtered at night,

which is not the time of slaughter.

B.

And one whose blood was spilled

onto the ground before some of its blood was sprinkled on the altar.

C.

And one whose blood went out

before the sprinkling

outside the curtains, and was disqualified through “going out.”

and was disqualified because it had gone out.

With these three disqualifications,

that if

nevertheless

it went up

the disqualified olah on the altar,

it must come down.

But all the other disqualifications, apart from these, if they brought their flesh up onto the altar, they do not come down; rather, they burn them on the altar 13 .

Rabbi Shimon says:

that which is written, “It is the olah upon its firewood on the altar all night,” we expound this verse as follows:

“An olah”—I have only [learned] a valid olah

that went up on the altar.

From where [do we learn] to include

a disqualified olah

that was slaughtered at night,

and one whose blood was spilled, and one whose blood went out outside the curtains

before it was sprinkled,

and

an olah

whose [blood] remained overnight

whose blood remained all night and was disqualified through remaining overnight, and still had not been sprinkled until morning,

and one that went out,

whose flesh went out beyond the courtyard,

and one that is impure,

whose flesh became impure,

and the leftover,

the flesh of an olah or the sacrificial portions that remained all night outside the altar and were disqualified through remaining overnight,

and one that was slaughtered

with the thought to burn [it]

beyond its time and beyond its place,

and [one whose blood] disqualified persons received

the blood in a vessel, or the disqualified persons

sprinkled their blood,

and those [whose blood] is given

for which it is a mitzva to give their blood

above [

such as the blood of an animal sin-offering, which is given on the corners of the altar],

that he gave

their blood

below,

and those [whose blood] is given below, [that] he gave above,

and those [whose blood] is given outside,

for which it is a mitzva to give them on the copper altar

that he gave them inside

on the golden altar,

and those [whose blood] is given inside

on the golden altar,

that he gave them outside

on the copper altar,

and the Passover-offering and the sin-offering that he slaughtered not for their sake,

which are disqualified,

from where [do we learn

that all these disqualified offerings, if they went up on the altar, do not come down?

The verse states, “This is the law of the olah. It included

the verse by stating the general principle, “the law of the olah,” that there should be

one law for all that go up,

to say,

that if they went up

even with a disqualification, then

they do not come down!

Perhaps I should include

that they should not bring down even

the animal that copulated and the animal that was copulated with,

and the designated [animal],

an animal that was designated for idolatry,

and the worshipped [animal],

an animal to which they bowed as an act of idolatry,

and the prostitute’s wage

of a prostitute—a person who gave a sheep to a prostitute in exchange for the act of prostitution; the sheep is disqualified as an offering,

and the exchange

of a dog—a person who exchanged a sheep for a dog; the sheep is disqualified as an offering,

and the crossbred animal,

born from a goat that mated with a ewe,

and the animal with a fatal condition, and the one born by cesarean section!?

The verse states, “This”,

to exclude these disqualified offerings, which even if they went up must come down.

And what have you seen to include these

from the inclusion “the law of the olah,”

and to exclude these

from the exclusion “this”? For the verse included and excluded, but did not explain what to include and what to exclude.